ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,732, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for characterizing a vehicle motion of an autonomous mobile robot" was invented by Robert Dam (Waterloo, Canada), Alex Jou (Kitchener, Canada), Amer Keblawi (Kitchener, Canada), Ryan Christopher Gariepy (Kitchener, Canada) and Jason Mercer (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for characterizing a vehicle motion of an autonomous mobile robot in response to a triggering event. The method and system involve an autonomous mobile robot and a vehicle processor operable to...