US Patent Issued to ISUZU MOTORS on Nov. 4 for "Transport management device and transport management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,684, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Transport management device and transport management method" was invented by Takafumi Fujita (Tokyo), Masaki Uchida (Tokyo), Ryo Kuranishi (Tokyo) and Takatoshi Hida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport management device and a transport management method generate a travel plan and a driving plan. The transport management device manages a transport system in which goods and the like are transported by causing, on the basis of the travel plan, a vehicle to travel autonomously and without crew in a crewless autonomous travel section leading to a boarding poin...