ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,823, issued on May 13, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Driving support method, and driving support device" was invented by Wasantha Oshita (Fujisawa, Japan), Masaichi Takahashi (Fujisawa, Japan) and Shinichiro Fukazawa (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This driving support device outputs a target acceleration/deceleration for causing a host vehicle to track a preceding vehicle, if there is a preceding vehicle to track, and if there is no preceding vehicle to track, outputs a target acceleration for bringing the speed of the host vehicle to a set fixed speed, and modifies (corrects) the target accel...