ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,773, issued on July 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control system, control method, and storage medium for storing program to control the operation of a mobile device" was invented by Teruhisa Misu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kentaro Yamada (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system comprises a travel control unit configured to cause a moving body to travel to a designated place designated by a dispatch request, in response to the dispatch request from a user. Interactive communication is performed between the user and the moving body via a mobile terminal held by the user, before the moving body reach...