US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 26 for "Assistance apparatus, vehicle, computer readable storage medium, and assistance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,827, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Assistance apparatus, vehicle, computer readable storage medium, and assistance method" was invented by Masaharu Shinagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive information indicating a travelling hazardous point which is transmitted from an outside of a vehicle, a calculation unit configured to calculate a distance and an orientation from the vehicle to the point based on the point and a current position of the vehicle, a detection unit configured to detect the point inside a detection range ...