ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,824, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Moving object operation management device" was invented by Toru Takashima (Susono, Japan), Atsushi Tojo (Susono, Japan), Keigo Noguchi (Toyota, Japan) and Shun Maruyama (Numazu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving object operation management device is configured to set an exclusive section when a work of a certain moving object inhibits movement of a passage of another moving object, and to selectively issue a first operation instruction for moving one of the two moving objects to the next destination on a path bypassing the exclusive section for ...