ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,529, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Robot path planning apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Hwan Hee Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Hun Keon Ko (Anyang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot path planning apparatus includes: a storage configured to receive an obstacle occupancy grid map, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate a cost map in which a cost corresponding to a separation distance from an obstacle to a movement area to which a robot is able to move is assigned, based on the obstacle occupancy grid ma...