ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,764, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Delivery system, delivery method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Nobuhisa Otsuki (Toyota, Japan), Haeyeon Lee (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yutaro Takagi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yuta Itozawa (Nagoya, Japan), Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan) and Kota Oishi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This paper discloses a delivery system in which delivery of an object to an event is carried out by a mobile body which travels autonomously and can flexibly cope with the change without bothering a use...