US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 15 for "Map data generation device, movable apparatus management device, storage medium, map data generation method, and movable apparatus management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,966, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Map data generation device, movable apparatus management device, storage medium, map data generation method, and movable apparatus management method" was invented by Masashi Kotoku (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hideaki Ooba (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a map which can contribute to performance of smooth operation of a movable apparatus which autonomously moves to the movable apparatus, a map data generation device includes an operation data reception unit configured to receive operation data indicating results of a movable apparatus autonomo...