ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,854, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" was invented by Aya Miura (Wako, Japan) and Kenji Komori (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device includes a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable instructions to generate a target operation amount profile that is a time-series change in a target acceleration operation amount when a mobile object merges into a main lane, and cause an information output d...