ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,546, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Teleoperation system and method thereof" was invented by Oliver Schon (Offenbach, Germany), Dirk Ruiken (Offenbach, Germany), Mathias Franzius (Offenbach, Germany) and Martin Weigel (Giessen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and teleoperation system, includes provision of first information on an environment of a teleoperated device by at least one sensor module that is included in the teleoperated device and prediction of an action intended by the operator based on an input of the operator by an action predictor module that is included in the informat...