ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,431, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Control server, information processing system, traveling body, method for controlling traveling body, and recording medium" was invented by Aiko Ohtsuka (Tokyo), Mototsugu Muroi (Kanagawa, Japan), Masuyoshi Yachida (Tokyo), Koichi Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hanako Bando (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control server for controlling a traveling body includes an instruction unit to instruct the traveling body to travel on a first route and acquire state information of a first monitored object on the first route. Based on a determination of presence ...