ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,334, issued on April 22, was assigned to Built Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"Autonomous pile driver apparatus and method" was invented by Noah Austen Ready-Campbell (San Francisco), Andrew Xiao Liang (San Francisco) and Gaurav Jitendra Kikani (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A autonomous off-road vehicle (AOV) accesses a pile plan map indicating a plurality of locations in a geographic area at which piles are to be installed. The AOV selects a first location and a second location from the plurality of locations using the pile plan map. The AOV autonomously navigates to the first location. The AOV autonomously loads a fi...