US Patent Issued to HCL Technologies Italy on June 24 for "Method and system for detecting obstacles in an environment of a user in real-time" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,370, issued on June 24, was assigned to HCL Technologies Italy S.p.A. (Rome).

"Method and system for detecting obstacles in an environment of a user in real-time" was invented by Giuseppe Longobardi (Rome), Maria Elena Massino (Rome) and Francesca Solida (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to method and system for detecting obstacles in an environment of a user in real-time. The method includes generating a LASER beam towards each of a plurality of regions in the environment of the user; receiving a feedback signal based on reflection of the LASER beam from an obstacle located in at least one of the plurality...