ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,815, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Management method for mobile object, control method for mobile object, mobile object, and recording medium storing computer program" was invented by Hirotaka Okazaki (Tokyo) and Kenji Takao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management method for a mobile object includes acquiring movement conditions for the mobile object that automatically moves, and setting a safety region as a region on a traveling direction side of the mobile object in which an object should not be positioned based on the movement conditions. The setting of the safety region i...