ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,640, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Intermediate waypoint generator" was invented by Gina Christine Fay (Lexington, Mass.) and Alfred Rizzi (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating intermediate waypoints for a navigation system of a robot includes receiving a navigation route. The navigation route includes a series of high-level waypoints that begin at a starting location and end at a destination location and is based on high-level navigation data. The high-level navigation data is representative of locations of static obstacles in an area the robot is to nav...