ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,291, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Automatic traveling vehicle" was invented by Shuhei Ishikawa (Kobe, Japan), Taichi Inaba (Kobe, Japan), Kazuya Nagasaka (Kobe, Japan), Takahiro Yano (Akashi, Japan) and Toru Minami (Akashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic traveling vehicle includes a driving source, a left driving wheel and a right driving wheel to which a driving force from the driving source is transmitted, and that rotate independently from each other, a left manipulator and a right manipulator that control an actual rotational speed of the left driving wheel and an act...