US Patent Issued to Preferred Robotics on Sept. 15 for "Autonomous vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,965, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Preferred Robotics Inc. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous vehicle" was invented by Koji Terada (Tokyo), Toru Isobe (Tokyo), Jun Hatori (Tokyo), Ryosuke Okuta (Tokyo) and Hirotoshi Kunori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle capable of executing a task corresponding to a conveyance instruction by sound is provided. The autonomous vehicle docks with a conveyance target and conveys the conveyance target. The autonomous vehicle includes a docking mechanism configured to dock with the conveyance target, an audio input device, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the ...