US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 28 for "System to determine collisions of an autonomous mobile device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,571, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System to determine collisions of an autonomous mobile device" was invented by Shreekant Gayaka (Fremont, Calif.), Shengchen Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Boshen Niu (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile device (AMD) moves within in a physical space. The AMD may encounter features in the physical space, such as flooring transitions, or obstacles that may impede movement. Sensors such as an inertial measurement unit (IMU), wheel encoders, and motor torque sensors acquire sensor data. Based on the sensor data, measured motion v...