ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,061, issued on May 19, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Mobile apparatus, method for determining position, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Asuto Taniguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile apparatus includes circuitry to control the mobile apparatus to perform teaching travel and autonomous travel, generate; for each of nodes on a travel route independently for external sensors, calculation information for calculating a deviation between a node passed in the teaching travel and a point passed in the autonomous travel; store in the memory the calculation information in association...