US Patent Issued to Hitachi Construction Machinery on Sept. 9 for "Vehicle management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,501, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle management system" was invented by Masaki Kanai (Mito, Japan), Shinjiro Saito (Kasumigaura, Japan) and Tosuke Iwanaga (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where a travel permission request regarding a queuing zone for a first unmanned vehicle stopped in a queuing zone is received, on the basis of a time length taken for the first unmanned vehicle arriving at a deceleration start position and a time length taken for a second unmanned vehicle positioned in a loading zone going out of the loading zone from reception of ...