ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,444, issued on March 3, was assigned to Rapyuta Robotics Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method and a system for positioning autonomous mobile vehicles in an operating environment" was invented by Abhishek Sharma (Tokyo) and Christian Helm (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to method of positioning autonomous mobile vehicles in operating environment. The method comprises transmitting positioning request indicating current position and first target position of autonomous mobile vehicle to other autonomous mobile vehicles; identifying one or more autonomous mobile vehicles in vicinity of first target position, base...