ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,706, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Construction constrained motion primitives from robot maps" was invented by Joel Chestnutt (Natick, Mass.) and Gina Fay (Waltham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving sensor data of an environment about a robot and generating a plurality of waypoints and a plurality of edges each connecting a pair of the waypoints. The method includes receiving a target destination for the robot to navigate to and determining a route specification based on waypoints and corresponding edges for the robot to follow for navigating the robot to the...