US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 9 for "Mobile body, method of controlling mobile body, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,013, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mobile body, method of controlling mobile body, and program" was invented by Yusuke Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryo Watanabe (Tokyo), Yukihiro Saito (Tokyo) and Masaomi Nabeta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile body controller according to the present disclosure includes circuitry configured to recognize an environment surrounding a mobile body to be controlled, and change parameters used for self-position estimation by the mobile body based on the recognized environment."

The patent was filed on Dec. 3, 2019, under Application No. 17/299,366.

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