ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,345, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Autonomous moving apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Yaguma (Kyoto, Japan) and Masahiro Yasuda (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous moving apparatus is an apparatus that autonomously moves toward a target object set in advance, and includes a plurality of radio wave receiving units that receive a radio wave transmitted from the autonomous moving apparatus or an external device, a radio wave prevention unit that blocks or absorbs a radio wave from a predetermined direction when viewed from the radio wave receiving units, a movement direction s...