ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,686, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Control method, server device, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and data delivery system" was invented by Masahiro Taguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method including, by a computer: acquiring schedule information indicating movement plans of a plurality of mobile bodies capable of short-range wireless communication with each other, when detecting that state information indicating a current state of a first mobile body among the plurality of mobile bodies is unable to be receive...