ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,821, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Dynamically refining markers in an autonomous world model" was invented by Richard Gary McDaniel (Hightstown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing autonomous operations in an operating environment comprising a plurality of objects includes a server computer. The server computer comprises a nontransitory computer readable medium storing detailed representations of the objects in the operating environment. Each detailed representation of an object comprises one or more markers providing knowledge information related to the object. The autonomous device...