US Patent Issued to Rugged Robotics on Dec. 9 for "Mobility platform for autonomous navigation of worksites" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,296, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Rugged Robotics Inc. (Houston).

"Mobility platform for autonomous navigation of worksites" was invented by Derrick Morse (Houston), Logan Farrell (Houston), Kevin Chen (Austin, Texas) and Dikshya Swain (Humble, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobility platform is configured to execute one or more tasks in a worksite including a first passive landmark and a second passive landmark. The mobility platform may include a chassis, a drive system supporting the chassis, a first laser rangefinder disposed on the chassis at a first location, a second laser rangefinder disposed on the chassis at a s...