US Patent Issued to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions on Sept. 29 for "System and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,565, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).

"System and program" was invented by Hayami Kawate (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system detects a traveling obstacle region that is a region that obstructs traveling of a work machine. The system includes a region angle detector, a region height detector, an angle obstacle region detector, a height obstacle region detector, and a traveling obstacle region detector. The region angle detector detects an angle of a traveling surface based on a distance image around the work machine. The region height detector detects height of the tr...