US Patent Issued to CEVA TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 4 for "Planar robots dead-reckoning with optical flow, wheel encoder and inertial measurement unit" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,525, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CEVA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Planar robots dead-reckoning with optical flow, wheel encoder and inertial measurement unit" was invented by Zhanlue Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.), Douglas Charles Carlson (Mountain View, Calif.), Yun Li (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bryan A. Cook (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide for estimating a trajectory of a robot by fusing a plurality of robot velocity measurements from a plurality of robot sensors located within a robot to generate a fused robot velocity based on the accuracy of those robot velocity ...