US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 22 for "Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,791, issued on April 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" was invented by Futoshi Koga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device comprises an information acquisition unit that acquires movement information including a vehicle category indicating that the other vehicle is of four- or two-wheeled type, and information relating to a position and a speed of the other vehicle. The information acquisition unit determines whether the other vehicle traveling behind the vehicle is of the four- or two-wheeled type on the basis of the ...