US Patent Issued to NEC, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology on July 14 for "Pathfinding apparatus, pathfinding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,498, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo) and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Tokyo).

"Pathfinding apparatus, pathfinding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Ryota Higa (Tokyo), Shinji Nakadai (Tokyo) and Ken Hitsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pathfinding apparatus acquires vehicle information, map information, obstacle information. The vehicle information includes a current location and a goal location for multiple vehicles. The map information includes a map of a target space. The obstacle information includes history of locations ...