US Patent Issued to Ocado Innovatin on Nov. 11 for "Autonomous robot guidance systems and related methods" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,076, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ocado Innovatin Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Autonomous robot guidance systems and related methods" was invented by Michael Caine (Needham, Mass.), Daryl van Kampen (Las Vegas), Callum Gow (Cambridge, Mass.) and Maxwell Brandon Hurd (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous robot guidance systems and related methods are disclosed. An example autonomous robot includes processor circuitry to detect a first fiducial based on image data collected while the robot is in a first drive mode, the first drive mode corresponding to an autonomous drive mode; cause the robot to switch f...