ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,782, issued on May 13, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).
"System for sensor fusion for autonomous mobile device" was invented by Shreekant Gayaka (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical space includes obstacles with different characteristics. Different sensors may detect some obstacles well, while other obstacles are poorly detected. An autonomous mobile device (AMD) uses data from various sensors to determine information about the physical space that is expressed in layers. Each layer represents specified areas within at least a portion of the physical space, with each area having a value repres...