US Patent Issued to AI on Jan. 27 for "Method for constructing a map while performing work" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,325, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Method for constructing a map while performing work" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.), Lukas Robinson (York, Canada), Chen Zhang (Redmond, Wash.) and Sebastian Schweigert (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executed by a robot, including: starting, from a starting position, a work session in which the robot maps a workspace, wherein a front of the robot faces towards a forward direction in a frame of reference of the robot; the robot traversing, from the starting position, to a first position, a first distance from the starting po...