ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,776, issued on May 13, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).
"Efficient coverage planning of mobile robotic devices" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for covering a work environment by a robot, including: obtaining sensor data indicative of operational hazards; generating a map based on data obtained from sensors of the robot; determining an object type of an operational hazard based on extracted features and a database of various object types and their features; generating a coverage plan for areas of the work environment; executing the coverage plan by the robot; capturing d...