US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 19 for "Machine learning model for task and motion planning" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,926, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine learning model for task and motion planning" was invented by Yuke Zhu (Austin, Texas), Yifeng Zhu (Austin, Texas), Stanley Thomas Birchfield (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jonathan Tremblay (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are described that solve task and motion planning problems. In at least one embodiment, a task and motion planning problem is modeled using a geometric scene graph that records positions and orientations of objects within a playfield, and a symbolic scene graph that represents states of ob...