ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,215, issued on June 10, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Logistics management server, information processing method, and information processing system" was invented by Toshiaki Tazume (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logistics management server includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to acquire route plans for unmanned vehicles each delivering a package to a delivery point. The circuitry is further configured to determine whether a first unmanned vehicle and a second unmanned vehicle will approach each other based on the acquired route plan for the first unmanned vehicle and the acquired route plan for the ...