US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Dec. 30 for "Unmanned vehicle and method for a first unmanned vehicle for avoiding a conflict with a second unmanned vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,901, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Unmanned vehicle and method for a first unmanned vehicle for avoiding a conflict with a second unmanned vehicle" was invented by Florian Becker (Stuttgart, Germany) and Bi Wang (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decentralized method for a first Unmanned Vehicle, UV, for avoiding a conflict with a second UV is provided. The method includes determining, based on a current movement plan of the first UV and a current movement plan of the second UV received from the second UV, whether a conflict with the second UV is likely to occur. If it is determined t...