US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Dec. 30 for "Travel route control of autonomous work vehicle to reduce travel distance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,891, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Travel route control of autonomous work vehicle to reduce travel distance" was invented by Naoki Kameyama (Saitama, Japan), Takahide Konchi (Saitama, Japan) and Jin Nishimura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous work vehicle including a position information obtaining unit, a driving unit, a control unit, and a memory storing a destination position. 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...