ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,708, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Method and system for navigation of robot from one area to another area" was invented by Snehasis Banerjee (Kolkata, India), Sayan Paul (Pune, India), Ruddra Dev Roychoudhury (Kolkata, India) and Abhijan Bhattacharyya (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for navigation of a robot from a first area to a second area in a facility is provided. The present disclosure is providing robot navigation using the 'Areagoal' Navigation technique. 'Areagoal' class of problem is divided into two subtasks: identifying the area; and...