US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Sept. 2 for "Control device and method for controlling an unmanned delivery vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,223, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Control device and method for controlling an unmanned delivery vehicle" was invented by Toshiaki Tazume (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device (100) controls a delivery vehicle and includes a first determiner (120) that determines a point (i) by using each of a plurality of shipping locations as a reference and (ii) on the basis of a preparation time from when a shipping request is accepted until when shipment becomes possible at each of the plurality of shipping locations. Additionally, the control device (100) includes a controller (130) that allow...