US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 4 for "Autonomous mobile body control device, autonomous mobile body, and autonomous mobile body control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,526, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous mobile body control device, autonomous mobile body, and autonomous mobile body control method" was invented by Andrii Pydin (Wako, Japan), Shinta Aonuma (Wako, Japan) and Shintaro Hidaka (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile body control device includes a control unit that is capable of executing a first movement control that controls movement of an autonomous mobile body on the basis of a main map, and a second movement control that controls the movement of the autonomous mobile body on the basis of a local map. In the case tha...