ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,273, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Door opening and closing assisting apparatus" was invented by Toshihiro Kaneda (Tokyo), Mitsunori Nishino (Tokyo) and Nobuyuki Kishikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door opening and closing assisting apparatus includes: an information obtainer that obtains information on an opening and closing velocity of a door on a vehicle; a door actuator that performs driving for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; a target assisting power computer that computes a target assisting power for assisting the opening and closing operation of the doo...