US Patent Issued to WHILL on Sept. 8 for "Information processing method, program, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and map data generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,964, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to WHILL Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing method, program, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and map data generation method" was invented by Kazunori Hori (Tokyo), Taiga Arai (Tokyo) and Yoshiya Kaneko (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method and the like realize autonomous travel of a mobile body (30) that supports the movement of people who have difficulty walking long distances on their own. The information processing method is for a computer to execute processing including acquiring a current position and a destination from a mo...