US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 19 for "Driving support device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,267, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving support device" was invented by Fumiaki Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Hisanori Yanagida (Tokyo), Takashi Watanabe (Tokyo) and Satoshi Matsushita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support device includes: an accelerator pedal operation detection unit configured to detect an accelerator pedal operation; an advancing direction detection unit configured to detect an advancing direction; a shift range detection unit configured to detect a shift range; a switchback determination unit configured to determine that a switchback state is occurring, in which the a...