US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for swarm invitation based on social values" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,130, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for swarm invitation based on social values" was invented by Behdad Chalaki (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Vaishnav Tadiparthi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ehsan Moradi Pari (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jovin Jeevan D'Sa (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for swarm invitation based on social values are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes calculating a total disruption value of a proximate vehicle on a roadway with a plurality of swarm vehicles of a swarm on the roadway. The total dis...