ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,720, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, movable apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshihisa Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to determine a route for avoiding collision of a movable apparatus, a different movable apparatus as a target of collision is determined, different movable apparatus information that includes at least one of shape information, a current state, a performance, information regarding a task that is being performed of the different movable apparatus, and information regarding a route along whi...