ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,416, issued on May 27, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Travel plan generating method and travel plan generating system for mobile vehicles based on remaining energy" was invented by Satoru Hayama (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery plan generating method includes determining a start point that is point where delivery of a delivery object starts, determining an end point where the delivery of the delivery object finishes, determining a transfer point as a destination with reference to the start point, the end point, a position of the first mobile unit, and a posi...