ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,258, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Yaw rate estimating device" was invented by Shuichi Okada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Yaw rate estimating device includes: information acquirer that acquires information on front image and information on vehicle speed; lane recognizer that recognizes traveling lane drawn on traveling route of own vehicle and curvature thereof based on information on front image; direction change rate calculator that calculates change rate of direction of traveling lane based on information on curvature of traveling lane and vehicle speed; yaw angle change rate calculator t...