ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,534, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Infrastructure to support vehicle navigation" was invented by Subodh Mishra (Bryan, Texas), Punarjay Chakravarty (Campbell, Calif.), Sagar Manglani (Cupertino, Calif.), Sushruth Nagesh (Mountain View, Calif.) and Gaurav Pandey (College Station, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot can be moved in a structure that includes a plurality of downward-facing cameras, and, as the robot moves, upward images can be captured with an upward-facing camera mounted to the robot. Downward images can be captured with the respective downward-facing camera...