ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,398, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control system for mobile object, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Hitoshi Fukamachi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of an information processing apparatus that controls movement of a mobile object such as an automated guided vehicle or an autonomous mobile robot acquires an image in which the mobile object and the surrounding environment of the mobile object have been captured, acquires information of a position/posture of the mobile object, analyzes a motion of objects present in...