US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 5 for "Route guidance for personal transport device based on prosocial behavior costs" (Georgia, California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,487, issued on May 5, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Route guidance for personal transport device based on prosocial behavior costs" was invented by Sidney Tammie Scott-Sharoni (Atlanta), Shashank Kumar Mehrotra (Campbell, Calif.), Miao Song (Saline, Mich.), Kevin Joel Gabriel Salubre (San Jose, Calif.), Kumar Akash (San Jose, Calif.) and Teruhisa Misu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for calculating route guidance for a personal transport device based on prosocial costs is described. In one embodiment, the method includes calculating, by a processor associated with the personal trans...