ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,417, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GUANGDONG POLYTECHNIC NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Guangzhou, China).

"Path optimization method and system for mobile robot" was invented by Zhenxing Zheng (Guangdong, China), Jian Ouyang (Guangdong, China) and Guifang Ye (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path optimization method for a mobile robot is provided, including: acquiring path information of the mobile robot; processing the path information through a preset path optimization model to obtain path optimization nodes; calculating an optimal path of the mobile robot through the path optimization nodes and feeding the optimal path b...