ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,887, issued on July 15, was assigned to YAMABIKO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Working robot and control method" was invented by Haruka Ishihira (Tokyo) and Daisuke Ishihira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working robot includes a processor. The processor is configured to form a working track along a traveling route for autonomous travel, recognize a location of a charging base configured to charge a battery as a drive source of the working robot, and set a working traveling route in a working section virtually defined and a charging traveling route between as actual location of the working robot and the location of the charging base. Befo...