ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,730, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Control device, moving body, and control method" was invented by Masahiro Yamada (Tokyo), Noritaka Yanai (Tokyo) and Kazutaka Shimizu (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls travel direction of a traveling body that travels along a plurality of magnetic markers arranged with intervals therebetween on a track, the control device including: a first sensor for detecting the magnetic markers; a second sensor for detecting speed or acceleration; a first lateral position calculation unit for calculating a lateral position of...