ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,967, issued on July 29, was assigned to Locus Robotics Corp. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Visual robot pose estimation" was invented by Changchun Li (Concord, Mass.) and Stephen V. Williams (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a pose of a robot using two co-planar points on an object plane in the environment and two co-planar lines on the object plane, includes capturing with a camera on the robot an image of the object in the environment, including two observed points corresponding to the two co-planar points on the object and two observed lines corresponding to the two co-planar lines on the object; proje...