ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,972, issued on March 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Collision avoidance assistance device, storage medium, and collision avoidance assistance method" was invented by Ryo Takaki (Kariya, Japan), Yosuke Ito (Kariya, Japan), Kei Kamiya (Kariya, Japan), Toru Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Shogo Matsunaga (Kariya, Japan), Takaharu Oguri (Kariya, Japan) and Takahiro Baba (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision avoidance assistance device includes a first determination section that determines a probability that a vehicle changes course, by using a recognition result of a road structure and a detection result ...