US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI LOGISNEXT on Dec. 30 for "Visibility support system, industrial vehicle, visibility support method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,368, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI LOGISNEXT Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Visibility support system, industrial vehicle, visibility support method, and program" was invented by Takuya Akashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Keisuke Tsukahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visibility support system includes: a positioning unit that estimates a position of an industrial vehicle; a route prediction unit that predicts a route of a part of the industrial vehicle or an object moving together with the industrial vehicle with reference to the position estimated, and calculates an interference position at which an obstacle i...