ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,974, issued on June 10, was assigned to Built Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"Autonomous operation by earth-moving vehicle based on triggering conditions" was invented by Noah Austen Ready-Campbell (San Francisco), Andrew Xiao Liang (San Francisco), Gaurav Jitendra Kikani (San Francisco) and Joonhyun Kim (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earth moving vehicle (EMV) autonomously performs an earth moving operation within a dig site. If the EMV determines that a state of the EMV or the dig site triggers a triggering condition associated with a pause in the autonomous behavior of the EMV, the EMV determines a risk associate...