US Patent Issued to NIDEC on Dec. 9 for "Autonomous travel device and autonomous travel device control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,908, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Autonomous travel device and autonomous travel device control method" was invented by Jun Nishiyama (Kyoto, Japan), Shohei Imada (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomoki Yoshikawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of an autonomous travel device includes a selected unit configured such that one option is selected from a plurality of options corresponding to each of a plurality of passage widths having mutually different degrees of freedom of movement allowed for travel through a passage, and a route search unit configured to search for, on the basis of map inform...