ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,505, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Robot management system" was invented by Tsutomu Wakitani (Wako, Japan) and Masaki Ueyama (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot management system includes: a first robot management unit that manages an activity of a first mobile robot taking a first area as an activity range; a second robot management unit that manages an activity of a second mobile robot taking a second area as an activity range; a wide area task accepting unit that accepts a wide area task involving movement from a first point in the first area to a second point in the second area;...