US Patent Issued to JABIL on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus, system, and method of using depth assessment for autonomous robot navigation" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,853, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to JABIL INC..

"Apparatus, system, and method of using depth assessment for autonomous robot navigation" was invented by Howard Cochran (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Charles Martin (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system and method of operating an autonomous mobile robot having a height of at least one meter. The robot body; at least two three-dimensional depth camera sensors affixed to the robot body proximate to the height, wherein the sensors are directed toward a floor surface and, in combination, comprise a substantially 360 degree field of view of the floor s...