US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Jan. 20 for "Vision-aided inertial navigation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,563, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Vision-aided inertial navigation" was invented by Stergios I. Roumeliotis (St Paul, Minn.) and Anastasios I. Mourikis (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Localization and navigation systems and techniques are described. An electronic device comprises a processor configured to maintain a state vector storing estimates for a position of the electronic device at poses along a trajectory within an environment along with estimates for positions for one or more features within the environment. The processor computes, from the image data, ...