US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Group control system and group control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,816, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Group control system and group control method" was invented by Kiyomasa Akaike (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The group control system controls a plurality of mobile objects capable of autonomously traveling in a predetermined area. The group control system includes a position information estimation unit that estimates position information of each mobile object, a route planning unit that creates a route plan of each mobile object based on the estimated position information, an acceleration data acquisition unit that acquires acceleration dat...