ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,474, issued on April 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Route setting device and route setting system" was invented by Satoshi Hatori (Wako, Japan) and Akifumi Yamashita (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to reduce the number of avoidance actions, a route setting server includes map information storage device for storing map information in which the passerby quantity information indicating a passerby quantity is associated with a traveling path on which an autonomously traveling object travels autonomously, traffic frequency distribution identification device for identifying a passerby traffic frequ...