ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,178, issued on June 3, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Semantic models for robot autonomy on dynamic sites" was invented by Marco da Silva (Waltham, Mass.), Dom Jonak (Winchester, Mass.), Matthew Klingensmith (Somerville, Mass.) and Samuel Seifert (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, while a robot traverses a building environment, sensor data captured by one or more sensors of the robot. The method includes receiving a building information model (BIM) for the environment that includes semantic information identifying one or more permanent objects within the environment. Th...