US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 14 for "Work vehicle, control device, control method, and system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,504, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Work vehicle, control device, control method, and system" was invented by Takashi Hashizume (Wako, Japan), Ryuichi Kimata (Tokyo) and Ryota Hisada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle capable of autonomously moving in a work area, the work vehicle including a control unit, wherein the control unit starts an alignment in response to a request for the alignment from a manned forklift acquired via a communication unit, determines whether or not a positional relation between the work vehicle and the manned forklift is in a state before starting the ali...