US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 4 for "Driving ability determination system and driving ability determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,521, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving ability determination system and driving ability determination method" was invented by Toshifumi Matsuno (Tokyo), Taiki Iwama (Tokyo), Daisuke Ide (Tokyo) and Shinichiro Goto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving ability determination system, includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire travel data of a vehicle; a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first evaluation value indicating characteristics of steering by a driver of the vehicle based on the travel data acquired by the acquisition unit; and a second calculation unit conf...