ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,264, issued on May 6, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Driving support device, control method, and program" was invented by Tatsuya Iwasa (Wako, Japan) and Haruko Okuyama (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support device includes: a driving state monitoring portion configured to monitor a plurality of driving states including a gripping position of a steering wheel of an occupant of a vehicle; a positive value calculation portion configured to calculate a positive value indicating a degree of positiveness of the occupant with respect to steering based on the plurality of driving states monitored by th...