ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,205, issued on July 1, was assigned to MITSUBISHI LOGISNEXT Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"Control method for mobile object, mobile object, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Kenji Takao (Tokyo) and Katsumasa Kitajima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for a mobile object that automatically moves includes: causing a sensor disposed on the mobile object to detect a target object multiple times to acquire detection results of respective detection processes performed by the sensor as a point group; estimating a position and an attitude of the target object for each detection process based on the poi...