US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle scheduling apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,925, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle scheduling apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Aayush Aggarwal (Tokyo), Florence Thi Ngoc Loan Ho (Tokyo) and Shinji Nakadai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle scheduling apparatus acquires a task list information that indicates tasks assigned to a target person to whom a target vehicle is assigned. The vehicle scheduling apparatus determines an execution order of the tasks of the target vehicle using a cost matrix that indicates a minimum cost for each pair of sites, selects a path to travel for ...