ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,196, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Brain Corp. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for training a robot to autonomously travel a route" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Passot (San Diego), Andrew Smith (San Diego), Botond Szatmary (San Diego), Borja Ibarz Gabardos (San Diego), Cody Griffin (San Diego), Jaldert Rombouts (San Diego), Oleg Sinyavskiy (San Diego) and Eugene Izhikevich (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for training a robot to autonomously travel a route. In one embodiment, a robot can detect an initial placement in an initialization location. Beginning from the initialization location, the robo...