ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,897, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Return node map" was invented by Manabu Dobashi (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous work vehicle includes a position information obtaining unit, a driving unit, a control unit, and a memory. The position information obtaining unit includes a GNSS receiver acquiring a position of the autonomous work vehicle. The driving unit includes a motor. The control unit includes a processor. The memory stores a position of a plurality of travel nodes, wherein the processor calculates a direction of one of the plurality of travel nodes that is closest ...