ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,479, issued on April 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Moving object, control method of moving object, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and moving object control system" was invented by Ryoji Wakayama (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving object acquires three-dimensional point cloud data in surroundings of the moving object; and generates a grid map based on the three-dimensional point cloud data, the moving object maps point clouds of the three-dimensional point cloud data to a grid on a horizontal plane parallel to a road surface on which the moving object travels and generates the ...