ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,545, issued on March 11, was assigned to RENU ROBOTICS CORP. (San Antonio).
"Autonomous vehicle site setup" was invented by Michael Odell Blanton Jr. (San Antonio), Kristopher Charles Kozak (San Antonio) and Marc Christopher Alban (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are solutions for an autonomous vehicle to perform an initial navigational setup at an operating site by: receiving initial location and orientation data pertaining to the autonomous vehicle; iteratively sensing a plurality of recognizable objects and determining a plurality of fixed reference locations corresponding to each of the plurality of recogniz...