ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,544, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to YAMABIKO Corp. (Japan).

"Information processing system, work machine, and program" was invented by Tomohiro Hayashida (Hiroshima, Japan), Ichiro Nishizaki (Hiroshima, Japan) and Daisuke Ishihira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system is provided which can increase the possibility that a path along which work quality is high is set in a work area. In an acquisition step of the information processing system, boundary information is acquired, the boundary information indicating the boundary of the work area targeted by a work machine that can travel autonomously. In a...