ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,768, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"System and safety guide robot for accessing automated environments" was invented by Cornelius Buerkle (Karlsruhe, Germany), Fabian Oboril (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Frederik Pasch (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed to facilitate path planning safety guiding robots (SGR) for safely navigating and guiding humans through autonomous environments having other autonomous agents such as stationary and/or mobile robots."
The patent was filed on Sept. 24, 2021, under Application No. 17/484,863.
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