ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,281, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Driving assistance device" was invented by Shotaro Odate (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device includes a steering operation member configured to receive a steering operation, a grip sensor provided in the steering operation member and configured to detect a grip position of a driver, and a controller configured to execute driving assistance control of a vehicle. The controller is configured to store grip tendency data related to a tendency of the grip position of the driver in execution of the driving assistance control, determine whet...