ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,277, issued on March 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Robot guiding system and method" was invented by Heinrich Guenther Heiss (Munich) and Raffaele Soloperto (Olching, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a guiding system for a robot. The guiding system includes a millimeter-wave positioning system and a transmitter. The millimeter-wave positioning system is configured to determine a position of the robot relative to a base station for charging the robot. The transmitter is configured to emit a radar guiding signal for guiding the robot to the base s...