US Patent Issued to NTT on April 14 for "Remote control robot, remote control robot control system, and remote control robot control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,037, issued on April 14, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Remote control robot, remote control robot control system, and remote control robot control method" was invented by Dai Ando (Musashino, Japan) and Narimune Matsumura (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote-controlled robot autonomously travels to a plurality of task execution places according to a patrol schedule and executes a plurality of tasks at each task execution place, and includes a setting acquisition unit, and a first switching unit. The setting acquisition unit acquires setting of whether to perform autonomous operation or to perform manual ope...