ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,498, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time-aware occupancy grid mapping for robots in dynamic environments" was invented by Yingzhe Shen (Beijing), Zhigang Wang (Beijing) and Xuesong Shi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-aware occupancy mapping using regression to unknown ("RTU") analysis, and an apparatus to dynamically allocate occupancy probability to a cell in an environment to thereby form a time-aware occupancy map of the environment are disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory circuitry in communication with a processor circuitry, the memory circuitry configured to receive a...