US Patent Issued to HRL LABORATORIES on July 29 for "Automatic learning of relevant actions in mobile robots" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,962, issued on July 29, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Automatic learning of relevant actions in mobile robots" was invented by Nigel D. Stepp (Santa Monica, Calif.), Charles E. Martin (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Heiko Hoffmann (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system and method for robotic perception and action. The system includes a mobile autonomous platform programmed to receive a visual input related to an environment and perform a movement sequence that affects the environment based on the visual input. A neural network is in communication with the mobile autonomous platf...