ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,700, issued on July 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Autonomous moving object and information processing method" was invented by Yusuke Kawabe (Tokyo), Junna Imai (Tokyo), Hitoshi Hashimoto (Tokyo) and Takeshi Katayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an autonomous moving object and an information processing method that make it possible to improve the ability in expression of the autonomous moving object. The autonomous moving object is an autonomous moving object that operates autonomously, and includes a light emission section that changes a color and brightness of a surface of t...