US Patent Issued to AI on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for combining data to construct a floor plan" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,847, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Method and apparatus for combining data to construct a floor plan" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (San Diego), Chen Zhang (Richmond, Canada) and Sebastian Schweigert (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a medium storing instructions that when executed by a processor of a robot effectuate operations including: capturing, with a camera, a plurality of images of a working environment; obtaining image data of a first image and image data of a second image; determining an overlapping area of a field of view of the first image and a field of view o...