US Patent Issued to JIANGU UNIVERSITY on Aug. 25 for "Method for target assignment and route planning for multi-agent unmanned surface vehicles" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,696, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to JIANGU UNIVERSITY (Zhenjiang, China).

"Method for target assignment and route planning for multi-agent unmanned surface vehicles" was invented by Qingchao Liu (Zhenjiang, China), Chengzhi Gao (Zhenjiang, China), Yingfeng Cai (Zhenjiang, China), Hai Wang (Zhenjiang, China) and Long Chen (Zhenjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method for target assignment and route planning for multi-agent unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Task information is transmitted to a task allocator, which identifies unassigned targets and available USVs. Based on a comprehensiv...