US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on July 8 for "Method and device for operating a robot with improved object detection" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,209, issued on July 8, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for operating a robot with improved object detection" was invented by Oliver F. Schwindt (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joerg Mueller (Mountain View, Calif.), Theresa Kienle (Stuttgart-Neugereut, Germany) and Andrei Vatavu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are disclosed for improved object detection in an area surrounding a robot. In the method, first and second sensing data are obtained, which can be assigned to a first or second sensing means of the robot, respectively, and which contain at least one portion ...