US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Sept. 9 for "Unmanned vehicle management system and unmanned vehicle management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,853, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Unmanned vehicle management system and unmanned vehicle management method" was invented by Yasuyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Takashi Hiranaka (Tokyo) and Kenta Osagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned vehicle management system includes: a traffic congestion prediction unit that predicts occurrence of a traffic congestion from travel situations of a plurality of unmanned vehicles traveling on a travel path at a work site; and a guidance command unit that, when occurrence of a traffic congestion is predicted, outputs a first guidance command so that an unmanned veh...