ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,945, issued on June 17, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Traffic safety support system" was invented by Hideo Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan), Akihito Kimata (Saitama, Japan), Shigeru Inoue (Saitama, Japan), Yuji Takagi (Saitama, Japan), Yoshitaka Mimura (Saitama, Japan), Masaki Okumoto (Saitama, Japan) and Takahiro Kurehashi (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 it is predicted that a mobile body will not obey a signal displayed by a traffic light. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a ris...