US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Feb. 3 for "Movement control support device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,205, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Movement control support device and method" was invented by Hiroyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Noriyasu Hasejima (Tokyo), Go Sakayori (Tokyo), Takehito Ogata (Tokyo) and Keiichi Katsuta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of efficiently moving a plurality of moving objects under different rule-based control systems without impairing safety. In order to solve this problem, a moving body task estimation unit 501 estimates moving body tasks 541 of a plurality of moving bodies 1 under different rule-based control systems, an optimum route gen...