US Patent Issued to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmb on June 24 for "Obstacle avoidance using fused depth and intensity from nnt training" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,675, issued on June 24, was assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmb (Wuppertal, Germany).

"Obstacle avoidance using fused depth and intensity from nnt training" was invented by Pawel Orzechowski (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Wilson (San Jose, Calif.), Ron Domingo (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephanie Blankley (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a method for obstacle avoidance in a mobile robot. Images of objects are captured with mobile robot image sensors with a floor level perspective. Data corresponding to the images is used to train a neural network. The identified objects are classified by indicating wh...