US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 16 for "Driving assistance device, vehicle control system, and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,507, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance device, vehicle control system, and driving assistance method" was invented by Keisuke Oka (Wako, Japan), Shinya Maruo (Wako, Japan), Shunya Ishikawa (Wako, Japan) and Yohei Kitahara (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device mounted in a vehicle operates together with an automated driving control device for automatically controlling steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle in either of a first state in which a driver is not gripping a steering operation element and a second state in which the driver...