ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,219, issued on March 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance system, in-vehicle control device, driving assistance method and computer readable medium" was invented by Tatsuya Yokoyama (Tokyo), Takahisa Yamauchi (Tokyo) and Yoshitsugu Kawamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database creation unit (154) accumulates, in a driving condition database (160), driving condition data wherein feature amounts representing features of driving operation, travelling environment information including travelling spots and road shapes, driver information including attributes of drivers and vehicle type info...