US Patent Issued to NIDEC on Oct. 27 for "Autonomous traveling device and autonomous traveling device control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,282, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of an autonomous traveling device includes: a recognition unit that recognizes an obstacle for each of right and left regions sandwiching a body of the autonomous traveling device; a direction calculation unit that calculates a direction along the obstacle for each of the right and left regions; and a deviation control unit that causes the body to move away from the obstacle by combining a rotational mov...