US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 27 for "Mobiles, communication systems, and control methods" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,839, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Mobiles, communication systems, and control methods" was invented by Takeshi Imai (Musashino, Japan), Naotaka Shibata (Musashino, Japan) and Shin Kaneko (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present invention is a mobile including an optical transmitter that transmits an optical signal by irradiating a light receiver of a reception device with a beam, an instruction receiver that receives a movement instruction to move the mobile to a designated position, a position acquirer that acquires a current position of the mobile, a direction acquirer that ...