US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 17 for "Information processing system and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,195, issued on March 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system and information processing method" was invented by Norifumi Kikkawa (Tokyo) and Daisuke Fukunaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an environment in which obstacles are present, a route map generation unit 33 sets a boundary line formed by a group of points having an equal distance from the obstacles between the obstacles in a movable region that is a region in which a mobile body is movable, determines the number of lanes for a boundary line in accordance with a distance from each of the obstacles and a size of the mobile body m...