ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,672, issued on April 22, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Autonomous mobile robot for outdoor applications" was invented by Venkatesh Prasad Bangalore Srinivas (Bangalore, India), Venkat Raju Chintalapalli Patta (Bangalore, India), Pradeep Prabhakar Kamble (Bangalore, India), Rajasilpi Sureshkumar Presannakumari (Bangalore, India) and Kaushik Das (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile robot (AMR) for a plurality of outdoor applications is provided. The AMR includes a base frame configured to obtain the configurable base frame based on one or more parameters; a first drive ...