US Patent Issued to OMRON on Dec. 23 for "Method and apparatus for improved sampling-based graph generation for online path planning by a robot" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,779, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for improved sampling-based graph generation for online path planning by a robot" was invented by Gaurav Misra (San Ramon, Calif.), Akihiro Suzumura (San Ramon, Calif.), Andres Rodriguez Campo (San Ramon, Calif.), Sean Bailey (San Ramon, Calif.) and John Drinkard (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques for graph generation for online path planning offer multiple advantages, such as providing for high-quality motion during online operation of the robot, while reducing the computational burden of graph generation. Ac...