ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,861, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Route planning device and route planning method" was invented by Hiroki Yoshino (Wako, Japan) and Keigo Tanaka (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route planning device according to the present disclosure acquires target work start position information, target work start posture information, current position information, and current posture information, and generates a movement route for causing a work machine to reach a target work start position in a target work start posture, by combining a forward route along which the work machine moves forward ...