US Patent Issued to THE TORO on July 29 for "Autonomous machine navigation in lowlight conditions" (American, New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,968, issued on July 29, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Autonomous machine navigation in lowlight conditions" was invented by Michael Jason Ramsay (Verona, Pa.), David Arthur LaRose (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Zachary Irvin Parker (Pittsburgh), Matthew John Alvarado (Mars, Pa.), Stephen Paul Elizondo Landers (Pittsburgh) and David Ian Robinson (Hawke's Bay, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous machine (100) navigation techniques include using simulation to configure camera (133) capture parameters. A method may include capturing image data of a scene, generating irradiance image data, determinin...