ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,357, issued on July 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium" was invented by Takeru Goto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving assistance device including a storage medium storing computer-readable commands and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable commands to: recognize an external object near a mobile object; estimate toward which gaze candidate an occupant of the mobile object is directing his or her gaze from among a plurality of gaze candidates including gaze candida...