ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,056, issued on May 27, was assigned to Boehmert & Boehmert (Germany).

"Control and navigation device for an autonomously moving system and autonomously moving system" was invented by Florian Olsner (Jena, Germany), Benjamin Lewandowski (Erfurt, Germany), Chris Hagen (Bad Lobenstein, Germany), Ashwanth Ammapalayam Ravichandran (Bad Lobenstein, Germany), Stefan Milz (Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Germany) and Sukumar Karthigeyan (Bad Lobenstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control and navigation device for an autonomously moving system, which includes: a sensor device, configured to acquire sensor data, and a LiDAR sensor installati...