ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,120, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).
"Unmanned vehicle and delivery system" was invented by Toshiaki Tazume (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The unmanned vehicle for delivering an article, includes a housing portion for housing the article, the housing portion being provided with an openable and closable door, the door being closeable on a receiving surface of the article. Then, the unmanned vehicle identifies a direction of wind blown onto the unmanned vehicle; and on the basis of the identified direction of the wind, suppresses closing of the door, opened when the unmanned vehicle is stopped, due...