ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,430, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Traveling body, payment management system, and vehicle" was invented by Hideaki Shimamura (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling body is provided. A reception unit receives first information regarding a state of payment related to use of the traveling body from a payment management server that manages the state of payment. A traveling mechanism is driven under control of a control unit capable of limiting traveling of the traveling body according to the state of payment. A transmission unit transmits second information based on the first informatio...