US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 24 for "Driving assistance system, driving assistance device, and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,051, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance system, driving assistance device, and driving assistance method" was invented by Seito Nagashima (Tokyo), Sawaka Seki (Tokyo), Takashi Nunomoto (Tokyo), Takumi Shiba (Tokyo), Hitomi Ito (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Masaru Yanai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This driving assistance system is provided with: a position specification unit that specifies the positions of vehicles passing along a road; a selection unit that selects a first vehicle from the vehicles; an area-setting that sets, around the first vehicle, an attention call area of a...