US Patent Issued to GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY on March 18 for "Systems and methods for facilitating navigation in space" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,574, issued on March 18, was assigned to GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY (Fairfax, Va.).

"Systems and methods for facilitating navigation in space" was invented by Changyang Li (Herndon, Va.) and Lap Fai Yu (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation system for facilitating navigation in a space includes a network interface configured to access a representation of a space, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor coupled with the memory. The at least one processor executes the instructions to detect objects in the representation of the space and determine a plurality of desirable positions which facilitate navi...