US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, Honda Research Institute Europe on Nov. 4 for "Tele-operation assistance system and tele-operation assistance method" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,128, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH (Offenbach/Main, Germany).

"Tele-operation assistance system and tele-operation assistance method" was invented by Yili Dong (Wako, Japan), Tomoki Watabe (Wako, Japan), Simon Manschitz (Offenbach/Main, Germany) and Dirk Ruiken (Offenbach/Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tele-operation assistance system includes: a motion acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a motion of an operator operating an end effector; an intention understanding unit configured to estimate a target object to be operated by th...