ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,465, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device includes a storage device configured to store a program and a processor connected to the storage device. The processor executes the program to recognize a physical object, generate a future avoidance trajectory along which a moving object is able to move while avoiding the contact with the physical object, acquire a steering state of the moving object, determine an amount of change in an avoidan...