ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,842, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for parameter prediction for agent modeling" was invented by Ahmadreza Moradipari (Menlo Park, Calif.), Sangjae Bae (San Jose, Calif.), Ehsan Moradi Pari (Dublin, Ohio) and David F. Isele (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for parameter prediction for agent modeling are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a first driving code for a first proximate agent at a first time. The method also includes determining a first set of agent specific parameters for the first proximate agent based on t...