ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,721, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Travel environment recognition apparatus" was invented by Yuhi Goto (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel environment recognition apparatus includes: an external situation detection unit configured to detect an external situation around a subject vehicle; a state detection unit configured to detect a state of the subject vehicle; a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: recognizing a travel environment in front of the subject vehicle based on a detection value of the external situation...