US Patent Issued to NIDEC DRIVE TECHNOLOGY on March 24 for "Autonomous traveling device and autonomous traveling device control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,287, issued on March 24, was assigned to NIDEC DRIVE TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Autonomous traveling device and autonomous traveling device control method" was invented by Jun Nishiyama (Kyoto, Japan), Shohei Imada (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomoki Yoshikawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of an autonomous traveling device includes: an information adding unit that adds, as positional information of a virtual obstacle, to map information, positional information of a virtual obstacle that passes through a rear side of the device with respect to a starting point of a travel route and continuously extends to a fro...