ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,531, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Topology processing for waypoint-based navigation maps" was invented by Matthew Jacob Klingensmith (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The operations of a computer-implemented method include obtaining a topological map of an environment including a series of waypoints and a series of edges. Each edge topologically connects a corresponding pair of adjacent waypoints. The edges represent traversable routes for a robot. The operations include determining, using the topological map and sensor data captured by the robot, one or more candidate alter...