ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,739, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Autonomous travel system" was invented by Masaki Kanai (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Hamada (Tsuchiura, Japan), Mikio Bando (Tokyo) and Hiroto Morizane (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an autonomous travel system capable of effectively suppressing generation of ruts. It is a further object to provide an autonomous travel system including unmanned vehicles that travel on a transportation path constituted of opposite lanes, which is capable of suppressing generation of ruts while preventing proximity to an on-corning vehicle. An in-vehicle cont...