US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Feb. 25 for "Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,896, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" was invented by Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan), Aya Miura (Wako, Japan) and Ken Iinuma (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device includes a storage device configured to store a program and a processor connected to the storage device. The processor executes the program stored in the storage device to acquire information about a target position decided on as a position relative to another moving object located in a second lane when a host moving object merges or changes lanes from a fir...