ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,154, issued on March 31, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, monitoring system, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Akira Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: an acquiring means for acquiring position information, battery information, and movement capability information regarding each of mobile objects; a predicting means predict a monitorable time based on the position information of a monitoring mobile object, the position information of a standby mobile object, and the battery infor...