ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,636, issued on April 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Transportation system" was invented by Akifumi Yamashita (Wako, Japan), Katsuyoshi Watari (Wako, Japan), Kiyozumi Unoura (Wako, Japan) and Kazuhisa Sato (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation system includes map information storage means configured to store map information including travel road additional information about travel roads of an autonomous traveling transporter for transporting a load and inclination of the travel roads, collected information acquisition means configured to acquire collected information collected through autonomo...