ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,667, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rapyuta Robotics Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Taisei Corp. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous mobile robots for coverage path planning" 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: "The disclosure generally relates to a method and a system for heterogeneous autonomous mobile robots for coverage path planning. The method may include receiving sensor data from one or more sensor devices. The sensor data includes information corresponding to one or more robots in a predefined region. The method may further includ...