US Patent Issued to OMRON on May 12 for "Collision condition application device, method, program and path generation device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,595, issued on May 12, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Collision condition application device, method, program and path generation device" was invented by Kazumi Kasaura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an extraction unit that extracts, in a case in which plural agents move on a road map including plural vertices and plural edges connecting the vertices, a vertex-edge pair and an edge-edge pair in which the agents are likely to collide with each other; a calculation unit that calculates a time interval in which a collision between both agents occurs; and an application unit that applie...