US Patent Issued to NEC on March 18 for "Information processing device, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,842, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Manao Machida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing device 1A mainly includes an acquisition unit 51A, a sampling unit 54A, an artificial force field calculation unit 55A, and an output unit 56A. The acquisition unit 51A is configured to acquire a task logical expression in which an objective task to be performed by a robot is expressed by a combination of a plurality of atomic tasks. The sampling unit 54A is configured to perform sampling of one potential function...