ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,834, issued on June 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Traveling support device" was invented by Takaharu Oguri (Kariya, Japan) and Jin Kurumisawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling support device is applied to a vehicle equipped with an imaging device and performs a traveling support control on an own vehicle based on an image captured by the imaging device. The traveling support device includes: a recognizer that recognizes, based on the image, a forward object located ahead of the own vehicle in a direction of travel and a boundary portion located on each of left and right sides of a road on w...