ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,071, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Robot control system, robot control method, and control program" was invented by Shiro Oda (Anjo, Japan), Tetsuya Taira (Nagakute, Japan), Satoshi Toyoshima (Okazaki, Japan), Yuta Watanabe (Toyota, Japan), Takeshi Matsui (Nisshin, Japan), Takayoshi Nasu (Okazaki, Japan), Kei Yoshikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Ota (Nagakute, Japan), Yutaro Ishida (Toyota, Japan), Yuji Onuma (Nagoya, Japan) and Kyosuke Arai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control system according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of mobile robots that moves au...