ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,775, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery management for personal transport device based on prosocial behavior" was invented by Sidney Tammie Scott-Sharoni (Atlanta), Shashank Kumar Mehrotra (Campbell, Calif.), Miao Song (Saline, Mich.), Kevin Joel Gabriel Salubre (San Jose, Calif.), Kumar Akash (San Jose, Calif.) and Teruhisa Misu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for modifying range of a battery of a personal transport device based on prosocial behavior is described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting at least one object located on a path on which t...