US Patent Issued to iRobot on Sept. 30 for "Robot localization and mapping accommodating non-unique landmarks" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,888, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Robot localization and mapping accommodating non-unique landmarks" was invented by Vazgen Karapetyan (Northridge, Calif.), Artem Gritsenko (Malden, Mass.), Zacharias Psarakis (Melrose, Mass.), Guanlai Li (Westford, Mass.) and Daniele Tamino (Monrovia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robot localization or mapping can be provided without requiring the expense or complexity an "at-a-distance" sensor, such as a camera, a LIDAR sensor, or the like. Adjacency-derived landmark features can be used and non-unique landmark features can be accommodated. Uncertainty...