ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,471, issued on June 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Course generation device, course generation method, medium, and moving body" was invented by Koki Aizawa (Wako, Japan), Hideki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan), Ryoji Wakayama (Wako, Japan) and Kento Shirakata (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A course generation device generates course information indicating a course on which a moving body moves. The device outputs a course that the moving body is traveling and a course in the movement destination, generates the course connecting the course that the moving body is traveling to the movement destination, as a curve,...