ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,503, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Control device and method for controlling unmanned vehicle movement based on user terminal operation in mobile sales" was invented by Asaki Matsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When the UV for performing mobile sales of a mobile sales item is located in a sales area, the movement control system S identifies an operation situation on the user terminal 3 of the user in the sales area, the operation situation being an operation situation of the user with respect to the mobile sales item, and performs movement control of the unmanned vehicle on the basis of t...