US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, Honda Research Institute Europe on Oct. 14 for "Automated driving vehicle and traffic safety support system" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,365, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH (Offenbach/Main, Germany).

"Automated driving vehicle and traffic safety support system" was invented by Ryohei Hirano (Saitama, Japan), Akihito Kimata (Saitama, Japan), Junta Ochiai (Saitama, Japan) and Tim Puphal (Offenbach/Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated driving vehicle 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d includes: an external information acquisition device configured to acquire external information regarding a state of surroundings of the automated driving vehicle as a vehicle of interest; an on-board communication d...