ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,223, issued on July 29, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).
"Traffic safety support system" was invented by Akihito Kimata (Saitama, Japan), Shigeru Inoue (Saitama, Japan), Yuji Takagi (Saitama, Japan), Yoshitaka Mimura (Saitama, Japan), Takahiro Kurehashi (Saitama, Japan), Hideo Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan) and Masaki Okumoto (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which a mobile body has merged onto a road on which a mobile vehicle as a host vehicle is traveling and is approaching the host vehicle. A traffic safety support...