ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,258, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Traveling system, traveling method, and recording medium recording traveling program" was invented by Thinh Nguyenquang (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Yamauchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This traveling system includes: a setting processing unit that sets a travel route corresponding to each of the plurality of automatic traveling devices; a calculation processing unit that, when a first automatic traveling device interferes with a travel of other automatic traveling devices, calculates an evaluation value representing an influence level that the first a...