US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on March 17 for "Path generating method, program, path generating device, and autonomous mobile body" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,727, issued on March 17, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Path generating method, program, path generating device, and autonomous mobile body" was invented by Tsukasa Sakai (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path generating method includes setting a moving direction at each of two positions, setting a first turning circle with one of the positions as a contact point and the moving direction as a turning direction, setting a second turning circle that is within a specific area, setting a Dubins path that starts from a predetermined point of the second turning circle or ends at the predetermined point...