US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Aug. 11 for "Autonomous control system and autonomous control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,364, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous control system and autonomous control method" was invented by Shinji Ishihara (Tokyo), Masaki Kanai (Tokyo), Teppei Saitoh (Tokyo), Ryu Narikawa (Tokyo), Kazuya Sugimoto (Tokyo) and Tadashi Kotani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous control system includes a state amount acquiring unit that acquires the information of a control target, a control target position identification unit, a control target reaching region calculation unit, an outside information acquiring unit, a target distinguishing unit, a non-control target position identification u...