ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,890, issued on July 28, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Mobile-body control system" was invented by Tomokazu Saito (Tokyo) and Yuta Wada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a management apparatus, a mobile-body control system has an instruction unit that transmits a command of making a vehicle move to a waiting state from automatic driving; in the case where a state-transition determination unit determines that a state of the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition and the vehicle receives the foregoing command from the management apparatus, the vehicle is made to move to the waiting state by a state-tran...