ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,138, issued on April 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Adaptive trust calibration" was invented by Kumar Akash (Milpitas, Calif.), Teruhisa Misu (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhaobo K. Zheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, systems and techniques for adaptive trust calibration may include usage of a driving style predictor, including a memory and a processor. The memory may store one or more instructions and the processor may execute one or more of the instructions stored on the memory to perform one or more acts, actions, or steps, such as receiving a current automated vehicle (AV) d...