ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,642, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Behavior generation for situationally-aware social robots" was invented by Hifza Javed (San Jose, Calif.) and Nawid Jamali (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, behavior generation for situationally-aware social robots may include generating a synthesized behavior based on a latent space representation indicative of a situational context including a situationally-aware social robot and one or more individuals, performing behavior retargeting on the synthesized behavior based on a real behavior from an initial latent space input to ge...