ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,636, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Assistance system and computer-implemented method using prediction with human factors" was invented by Tim Puphal (Offenbach, Germany) and Matti Kruger (Offenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for assisting an agent moving in a dynamic environment, in which at least one other agent is present, comprises: obtaining sensor information on the environment of the agent; predicting at least one behavior of at least one of the agent or the at least one other agent based on the obtained sensor information; determining at least one...