ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,794, issued on March 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous mobile body and information processing method" was invented by Kei Takahashi (Tokyo), Yoshihide Fujimoto (Tokyo), Junichi Nagahara (Tokyo), Daisuke Mochizuki (Tokyo) and Yuka Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an autonomous mobile body, an information processing method, and a program enabling improvement in ability of expression by audio of an autonomous mobile body. An autonomous mobile body includes an operation control unit that controls an operation of the autonomous mobile body, a recognition unit that rec...