ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,171, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FUTRONICS (NA) Corp. (Pasadena, Calif.) and UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD (Shenzhen, China).
"Path planning for mobile machine in large scale navigation" was invented by Huaguang Du (Pasadena, Calif.), Zhipeng Liu (Pasadena, Calif.), Fangyun Zhao (Pasadena, Calif.), Chengkun Zhang (Pasadena, Calif.) and Huan Tan (Pasadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Path planning for mobile machine in large scale navigation disclosed. A path for moving a mobile machine is planned by: determining a start map node in a map graph based on a start point in the path and a goal map node in the map graph based o...