US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D, STMICROELECTRONICS on May 20 for "Cliff detection in robotic devices" (Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,085, issued on May 20, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and STMICROELECTRONICS LTD. (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Cliff detection in robotic devices" was invented by Benoit Rivot (Bessy, France) and Xingyu Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cliff Detection in Robotic Devices A method of operating a robotic device includes: moving the robotic device towards an edge of a cliff while a ToF sensor senses reflected signals having been transmitted by the ToF sensor, the reflected signals being generated by the signals transmitted by the ToF sensor being reflected off a target object ba...