US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 28 for "Autonomous mobile body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,735, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Autonomous mobile body" was invented by Masashi Nakamura (Tokyo), Masahiro Iwamoto (Nisshin, Japan) and Takao Kataoka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile body comprises a container apparatus where a plurality of sections can be separately locked and unlocked, where a window using a dimming glass is provided in a door of each of the plurality of sections; and a controller configured to cause movement to a predetermined location corresponding to a user who is a consignee of a first object, in a state where the dimming glass corr...