US Patent Issued to Agility Robotics on Nov. 11 for "Filtering object detection based on agreement with environment and related technology" (Oregon, Michigan, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,068, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Salem, Ore.).

"Filtering object detection based on agreement with environment and related technology" was invented by Robert DeBortoli (Corvallis, Ore.), Brent Griffin (Dexter, Mich.) and Anand Rajaraman (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present technology includes generating, by data-processing hardware operably associated with a mobile robot, a putative object estimate. The method further includes determining, by the data-processing hardware, a location of a landmark within a working environmen...