US Patent Issued to RICOH on April 29 for "Traveling body which detects obstacles and generates an obstacle map" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,101, issued on April 29, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Traveling body which detects obstacles and generates an obstacle map" was invented by Kento Hosaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Koichi Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Taku Kitahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling body includes a range sensor and circuitry. The range sensor is disposed on a front face of the traveling body in a traveling direction in which the traveling body travels on a road surface and disposed obliquely downward at an inclination angle relative to the road surface. The circuitry determines presence of a continuous obstacle in a case where measu...