US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 22 for "Systems and methods for calibrating a map of an autonomous robot" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,333, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for calibrating a map of an autonomous robot" was invented by Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Shankar Narayan Mohan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ling Zhu (Canton, Mich.) and Songan Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a map of an autonomous robot, a trajectory of the autonomous robot, or a combination thereof includes obtaining localization data from a localization sensor of the autonomous robot and determining whether a calibration condition o...