ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,714, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Collision-free motion generation" was invented by Balakumar Sundaralingam (Seattle), Siva Kumar Sastry Hari (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam Harper Fishman (Seattle), Caelan Reed Garrett (Seattle), Alexander James Millane (Zurich), Elena Oleynikova (Zurich), Ankur Handa (Seattle), Fabio Tozeto Ramos (Seattle), Nathan Donald Ratliff (Seattle), Karl Van Wyk (Issaquah, Wash.) and Dieter Fox (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform collision-free motion generation (e.g., to operate a real-world or virtual robot). In at lea...