US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 18 for "Mobile object control device, mobile object control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,982, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Mobile object control device, mobile object control method, and program" was invented by Kotaro Fujimura (Wako, Japan), Atsushi Kato (Wako, Japan) and Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a mobile object control device configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile object; set, based on the recognized surrounding situation, a risk area in which positions of the surrounding situation are associated with risk values that are indicator values indicating degrees to which the mobile object is to avoid traveling; generate a ta...