US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 3 for "Action probability estimation device and traffic safety support system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,580, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Action probability estimation device and traffic safety support system" was invented by Yoshitaka Mimura (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An action probability estimation device includes a risk calculation unit that calculates a risk index value as a numerical value representing a degree of magnitude of a collision risk between a traffic participant around a target vehicle and the target vehicle; and a probability estimation unit that estimates, on the basis of the risk index value and a driver characteristic as a characteristic of a driver of the target ...