US Patent Issued to Brookhurst Garage on Nov. 18 for "Topometric map based autonomous navigation for inventory drone" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,170, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Brookhurst Garage Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Topometric map based autonomous navigation for inventory drone" was invented by Soon Hac Hong (San Jose, Calif.), Yishun Cheng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Young Joon Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A topometric map that enables autonomous navigation of an inventory robot. The topometric map is generated using the layout of a storage site and is made up of vertices and edges. The vertices are generated at pallet locations and other structural locations, and edges are generated between neighboring vertices. Vertices and edges have assoc...