US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Feb. 3 for "Distributed coordination system and task execution method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,213, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Distributed coordination system and task execution method" was invented by Atsushi Miyamoto (Tokyo), Kiyoto Ito (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Mizuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous distributed coordination system for a broad-area search in an unknown environment without the need for a prior plan and map sharing. It includes: a sensor input processing section for acquiring (i) relative position information relative to another mobile body, (ii) path information in past and (iii) surrounding shape information; other mobile body avoidance module for generating, based...