ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,775, issued on May 13, was assigned to Scythe Robotics Inc. (Longmont, Colo.).
"Coverage planner" was invented by Marc Christopher Alban (San Antonio), Zachary Austin Goins (Boulder, Colo.), Kristopher Charles Kozak (San Antonio) and John Gordon Morrison (Longmont, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for generating a set of connected segments for a device or system to traverse in order to reach every point of the region (a coverage plan). Nodes defining the region to be traversed define a polygon. The polygon is decomposed into a mesh and a graph of the mesh is generated. The graph may be used to determine a l...