ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,191, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device for robot in multi-agent system" was invented by Manao Machida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a communication unit, a restriction condition calculation unit, and a control unit. The communication unit receives, from a second robot, a current position of the second robot, and restriction-related information used for controlling the second robot based on positions of a first robot and the second robot at past times. The restriction condition calculation unit calculates restriction condition candidates indicating conditions of a r...