ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,459, issued on May 13, was assigned to DUSTY ROBOTICS INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Mobile printing robot and related methods" was invented by Philipp Josef Herget (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tessa Ann Lau (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shih-Chieh Hsiung (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile printing robot prints layouts or other construction information on a construction surface. Support is provided for precise line navigation in a single pass or parallel passes. A firing pattern of an array of printing nozzles may be selected to compensate for lateral errors in position. The mobile printing robot may also print fiducial m...