ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,668, issued on June 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Path planning device" was invented by Daisuke Fukunaga (Tokyo) and Norifumi Kikkawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path planning device of the present disclosure includes: an input unit that accepts an input of data to be used in path planning, with respect to all of multiple moving bodies present in environment to be subjected to the path planning, in which the multiple moving bodies include at least one first moving body having a goal and at least one second goal-less moving body; and a planning unit that plans behavior until the time at which the first mov...