ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,272, issued on March 4, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Path planning in mobile robots" was invented by Andrew Blake (Bristol, Great Britain), Subramanian Ramamoorthy (Bristol, Great Britain), Svetlin Valentinov Penkov (Bristol, Great Britain), Majd Hawasly (Bristol, Great Britain), Francisco Maria Girbal Eiras (Bristol, Great Britain), Alejandro Bordallo Mico (Bristol, Great Britain) and Alexandre Oliveira E Silva (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of planning a path for a mobile robot in the presence of a set of obstacles comprises: computing for each obsta...