ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,855, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"System and method for RF based robot localization" was invented by Yuming Zhu (Plano, Texas), Indranil Sinharoy (Richardson, Texas), Songwei Li (McKinney, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas) and Jianzhong Zhang (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, when a handheld device is in motion within a service area to be traversed by a robot: obtaining ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging measurements between the handheld device and multiple anchors located in the service area; and obtaining image data and inertial measurement unit (IMU)...