US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Self-diagnostic fiducial classifier for mobile robots" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,553, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Self-diagnostic fiducial classifier for mobile robots" was invented by Nicholas A Smith (Medford, Mass.) and Lars Petter Johnsen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for mobile robots performing self-diagnostic fiducial classification are described herein. For example, a mobile robot can determine that an expected fiducial marker has not been detected as the mobile robot navigates via fiducial markers on a surface. In response, the mobile robot can generate an input to a machine learning model that can be executed on the mobile robot. The input c...