ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,710, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Guiding a follower by controlling a mobile object" was invented by Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan) and Eiji Haryu (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile object control method includes recognizing an object existing around a mobile object and a follower following the mobile object, generating a first trajectory, which is a target trajectory of the follower for the follower to move while avoiding contact with the object without considering the mobile object as an object that the follower is to avoid contact with, based on a result of the recognition, generati...