ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,343, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Steering assistance system" was invented by Satoshi Fujii (Wako, Japan), Yoshiyuki Misumi (Wako, Japan), Yuta Toma (Wako, Japan) and Toru Kawai (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a steering assistance system including a determination unit determining whether or not a positional relationship between an object around a waterborne moving body and the waterborne moving body satisfies a predetermined condition on the basis of a result of processing an image captured by an imager capturing an image around the waterborne moving body, and a display co...