ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,856, issued on March 18, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Mobile robot clearance systems" was invented by Mark Landergan (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Fisher (North Logan, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot can have a safety system that is configured to stop the mobile robot when an object is detected inside of a safety zone. The size of the safety zone can change based on the speed of the robot. The robot can predict future safety zones and determine whether objects would be inside of the predicted future safety zones. The robot can change its trajectory, such as by slowing down, so that the actual safet...