ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,116, issued on July 1, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Online authoring of robot autonomy applications" was invented by Samuel Seifert (Boston) and Leland Hepler (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for online authoring of robot autonomy applications includes receiving sensor data of an environment about a robot while the robot traverses through the environment. The method also includes generating an environmental map representative of the environment about the robot based on the received sensor data. While generating the environmental map, the method includes localizing a current position of the rob...