US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 6 for "Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,226, issued on May 6, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" was invented by Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan), Aya Miura (Wako, Japan) and Kenjiro Torii (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device includes a storage device storing a program and a hardware processor connected to the storage device. The hardware processor reads and executes the program stored in the storage device to recognize a risky physical object located near a mobile object on the basis of an output of a physical object detection device, cause at least one speaker to output a noti...