ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,713, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Map data having unequal interval" was invented by Naoki Kameyama (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map is stored in a robot that has a travelling unit, wherein the map is represented by a grid having a plurality of parcels, and a data set is assigned to each parcel such that the grid is represented by a plurality of data sets, each data set assigned to each parcel includes a characteristic value representing a characteristic of the parcel, and a grid value representing a shape of the parcel."
The patent was filed on March 1, 2022, under Application...