ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,355, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driver support system, driver support method, and storage medium" was invented by Keisuke Nakamura (Wako, Japan), Satoru Shinkawa (Wako, Japan), Tomohiro Imai (Wako, Japan), Shigenobu Mitsuzawa (Wako, Japan), Hideki Sakai (Wako, Japan), Hiroshi Ono (Wako, Japan) and Masahiro Kimura (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver support system includes: an acquisition unit that acquires biometric data of a driver of a moving object; an evaluation unit that evaluates a health condition of the driver; and an interactive response unit that executes an interaction ...