ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,301, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to YAMABIKO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Working robot system" was invented by Kentaro Sugi (Tokyo) and Haruka Ishihira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working robot system includes a working robot configured to perform work while autonomously traveling, and a non-energization wire configured to partition a working area or an active area of the working robot. The working robot includes a wire detector configured to detect the wire. The working robot system includes a controller configured to control the working robot to autonomously travel within a area partitioned by the wire, based on a detection sig...