ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,779, issued on April 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Kamakura (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus including a display part and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform controlling a travel actuator so that a subject vehicle follows a preceding vehicle while keeping a target inter-vehicle distance, acquiring traffic light information including switching information on a traffic light, position information of the subject vehicle with respect to the traffic light, and inter-vehicle distance information on a...