ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,651, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Autonomous navigation correction system" was invented by Lionel Gueguen (Erie, Colo.), Ben James Kadlec (Boulder, Colo.), Denver H. Dash (Longmont, Colo.) and Drew Steedly (Woodinville, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining obstacle data based on sensor data such as greyscale data and depth data. Based on the obstacle data navigation data may be determined and used by an autonomous vehicle to navigate an environment such as a warehouse or storage facility. The obstacle data may be det...