ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,356, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Moving body control system, control apparatus, and moving body control method" was invented by Hiroshi Yoshida (Tokyo) and Natsuhiko Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a moving body control system, a control apparatus, and a moving body control method that can control a moving body to travel on a path appropriate for the moving body to return to a target line, the moving body control system includes a moving body and a control apparatus configured to control the moving body to follow a target path. The control apparatus is configured to determine ...