ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,868, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Collecting device for training data" was invented by Toshikazu Karube (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first standard deviation Alpha of feature quantities of all pieces of non-expert data stored in a non-expert data storage unit 13 is calculated, and a second standard deviation Beta of feature quantities of all pieces of expert data stored in an expert data storage unit 14 is calculated. In addition, a first rank sum Xi of the feature quantities of all pieces of non-expert data stored in the non-expert data storage unit 13 is calculated, and a second rank ...