ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,339, issued on July 22, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Driving support device" was invented by Wasantha Oshita (Fujisawa-shi, Japan), Masaichi Takahashi (Fujisawa-shi, Japan) and Shinichiro Fukazawa (Fujisawa-shi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target acceleration/deceleration output unit includes an acceleration/deceleration output unit which outputs an acceleration/deceleration including a deceleration, on the basis of the vehicle-to-vehicle distance from a host vehicle to a preceding vehicle and the relative speed of the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle, and a canceling unit which cancels a dec...