ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,460, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Management device, positioning system, and management method" was invented by Koichi Tsuno (Saitama, Japan) and Tetsuya Matsuhisa (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management device includes: a processor, and the processor specifies a first mobile machine that is not scheduled to operate during a predetermined period, based on data of operation plans of a plurality of mobile machines that are autonomously movable and have a function of a positioning base station, and transmits, to the first mobile machine, an instruction to operate the first mobile ...