ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,490, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to National Central University (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Multi-vehicle spatially balanced coverage system and method" was invented by Kuo-Shih Tseng (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Yan-Shuo Li (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Pao-Te Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a multi-vehicle spatially balanced coverage system. The system includes a first mobile vehicle including a first sensor unit configured to sense a first environmental information; a second mobile vehicle including a second sensor unit configured to sense a second environmental information; and a...