ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,872, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TMRW Group IP (Luxembourg).

"Location-based autonomous navigation using a virtual world system" was invented by Cevat Yerli (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, autonomous mobile robot, and computer readable media enabling location-based autonomous navigation using a virtual world system. The system comprises at least one server computing device having at least one processor and a memory. The memory stores a virtual world system and computer-readable instructions. The virtual world system comprises at least one virtual object being spatially defined by virt...