ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,730, issued on March 11, was assigned to Carnegie Robotics LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for enabling navigation in environments with dynamic objects" was invented by Anurag Jakhotia (Pittsburgh), Andrew James Somerville (Pittsburgh), David Larose (Pittsburgh) and John Paul Thomas Atkinson (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indoor mobile industrial robot system is configured to provide a weight to a detected object within an operating environment, where the weight relates to how static the feature is. The indoor mobile industrial robot system includes a mechanism configured to translate reflected light energy and...