US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 18 for "Method, program, storage medium and assistance system for assisting ego-agent and vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,984, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method, program, storage medium and assistance system for assisting ego-agent and vehicle" was invented by Tim Puphal (Offenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for assisting an ego-agent, the method comprising: estimating a visibility area of another agent being present in an environment of the ego-agent; computing a visibility state of the other agent with regard to the ego-agent using the estimated visibility area of the other agent; estimating a collision risk between the ego-agent and the other a...