US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on March 24 for "Unmanned vehicle, system of controlling unmanned vehicle, and method of controlling unmanned vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,290, issued on March 24, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Unmanned vehicle, system of controlling unmanned vehicle, and method of controlling unmanned vehicle" was invented by Ryota Amano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned vehicle includes: a travel device; an obstacle sensor; a host path storage unit that stores a host path; a travel control unit that controls the travel device based on the host path; an oncoming path storage unit that stores an oncoming path to be given to an oncoming vehicle; and an obstacle presence/absence determination unit that determines whether or not an obstacle is located on the oncom...