ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,391, issued on May 5, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Mobile object control device, mobile object control method, and storage medium" was invented by Atsushi Kato (Wako, Japan), Kotaro Fujimura (Wako, Japan) and Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a mobile object control device including: a storage medium having computer-readable instructions stored therein; and a processor connected to the storage medium, wherein the processor executes the computer-readable instructions to recognize an object which is located near a mobile object, set a risk which is an index value indicating a degree to w...