US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 15 for "Control device, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,978, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Sango Matsuzaki (Wako, Japan) and Misa Komuro (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling a moving body moving autonomously, at least temporarily, in an area where pedestrians walk includes a processor configured to execute a program to recognize positions of the pedestrians in a time series, calculate an index value indicating a degree of cooperation of each of the pedestrians on a basis of a result of the recognition, set a risk area around each of the pedestri...