US Patent Issued to AI on March 25 for "Method and apparatus for improving range finding system readings" (Nevada, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,501, issued on March 25, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Method and apparatus for improving range finding system readings" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.), Chen Zhang (Redmond, Wash.) and Sebastian Schweigert (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot including a chassis; a set of wheels coupled to the chassis; a range finding system coupled to the robot; a plurality of sensors; a processor; and a tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: obtaining, with the processor, distances to obstacles me...