ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,631, issued on March 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Game theoretic decision making" was invented by Siyu Dai (Cambridge, Mass.), Sangjae Bae (San Jose, Calif.) and David F. Isele (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects related to game theoretic decision making may be implemented utilizing a sensor, a memory, and a processor. The sensor may detect other vehicles and corresponding attributes as an observation. The memory may store instructions. The processor may execute the instructions to perform acts, actions, or steps, such as constructing a search tree based on the observation, an initial belie...