ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,787, issued on June 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Moving apparatus and moving apparatus control method" was invented by Atsushi Suzuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus that includes a path planning unit that determines a travel path of a moving apparatus, calculates a path cost for each of a plurality of path candidates by applying a cost calculation algorithm in which a path that enables more stable traveling has a lower cost, and determines the path candidate having the path cost that has been calculated to be the lowest cost as the travel path that is best. The path planning unit furt...