ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,758, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Shared floor plan system for autonomous mobile devices" was invented by Alexander Caughron (San Jose, Calif.), Nikhil Sharma (Fremont, Calif.), Aarthi Raveendran (San Jose, Calif.), Jing Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Franklin Ebert (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Adam Fineberg (Saratoga, Calif.), Ruchi Agarwal (Milpitas, Calif.) and Gaurav Guruprasad Manur (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for generation, storage, and updating of common floor plans across shared autonomous mobile devices. The systems and techniques includ...