ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,116, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving support device, vehicle, driving support method, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroyuki Kyoshima (Tokyo) and Makoto Nakatsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a driving support device for supporting driving of a vehicle, the driving support device comprising: a detection unit configured to detect a current position of the vehicle; an acquisition unit configured to acquire data for updating a driving support function equipped on the vehicle; a control unit configured to control update of the driving support function...