ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,467, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Mobile object control system, mobile object control device, and mobile object control method" was invented by Daiki Morozumi (Wako, Japan) and Chiaki Tanaka (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile object control system includes a robot body, a floating device having a smaller density than a body connected to the robot body and including a drive unit that is able to change a center of buoyancy of the floating device with respect to the robot body, and a processor. The processor executes a program to perform calculating a control value for the drive uni...