US Patent Issued to Rapyuta Robotics, Taisei on Feb. 10 for "Method and system for optimal coverage path planning for autonomous mobile devices" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,176, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rapyuta Robotics Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Taisei Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for optimal coverage path planning for autonomous mobile devices" was invented by Ayush Kumar Gaud (Tokyo), Shigekazu Matsuzaki (Tokyo), Koji Nakatani (Tokyo) and Takafumi Kashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a system and method for optimizing coverage path planning of robots. Data is received from sensors associated with robots in a region. The data is captured in a plurality of poses from a plurality of viewpoints in the region. A priority cost is assigned f...