ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,839, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"System and methods for robotic teleoperation intention estimation" was invented by Mingyu Cai (Tustin, Calif.), Karankumar Ashokbhai Patel (San Jose, Calif.), Soshi Iba (Mountain View, Calif.) and Songpo Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for robotic teleoperation enable a teleoperated robotic element to perform a sequence of actions based on intention estimation, eliminating the need for continuous human control. The system includes a robotic teleoperation input that receives motion inputs and gaze data from a human operator per...