US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for defining serviceable areas" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,728, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for defining serviceable areas" was invented by Shubhashree Venkatesh (Fremont, Calif.), Noe Brito (Cupertino, Calif.), Yee-Ning Cheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Madhav Chhura (Whittier, Calif.), Sebastian Dovenor (Pittsburgh), John Drake (Cranbury, N.J.), Jonathan Pan (Campbell, Calif.), Jason Parraga (Fremont, Calif.) and Scott Plant (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for obtaining serviceable areas for a robotic system in a metropolitan area are described. A computing device obtains in...