ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,111, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control system, control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Takumi Sakamoto (Toyota, Japan), Shiro Oda (Anjo, Japan) and Takeshi Matsui (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system controls a system including an autonomously movable mobile robot. The mobile robot includes a light-emitting unit. The mobile robot is configured to determine the traveling state of the mobile robot associated with a traveling environment of the mobile robot, and to control the light-emitting unit to emit light in different light emissi...