ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,004, issued on April 14, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Warning device" was invented by Masahide Unno (Fujisawa, Japan) and Masafumi Kubota (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warning device includes: a right turn determining part that determines that a vehicle will turn right if a turn signal thereof is in a right turn signal state, and vehicle speed thereof is equal to or less than creep speed; an oncoming vehicle approach determining part that determines that another vehicle is approaching the vehicle as an oncoming vehicle if the vehicle will turn right, a vector indicating a travel direction of the ve...