US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 23 for "System to determine map data for autonomous mobile device map" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,276, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System to determine map data for autonomous mobile device map" was invented by Nathalie Majcherczyk (San Diego), Chang Young Kim (Newark, Calif.), Rajasimman Madhivanan (San Francisco) and Jong Jin Park (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Maps of a physical space provide information to an autonomous mobile device (AMD) about the location of objects. For example, a local map may represent objects currently detected while a global map represents objects that persist over time. Disagreements between the maps may result from quantization errors, ...