US Patent Issued to Ocado Innovation on Dec. 16 for "Systems, apparatus, and methods to facilitate docking of robotic vehicles with platforms" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,725, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods to facilitate docking of robotic vehicles with platforms" was invented by Christopher Cacioppo (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods to facilitate docking of robotic vehicles with platforms are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; machine readable instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to identify a property associated with a platform; determine a confidence associated with docking the platform and an autonomous veh...