US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on June 17 for "Guided travel mode with dynamic force feedback for mobile robots" (California, Washington, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,313, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Guided travel mode with dynamic force feedback for mobile robots" was invented by Achal Dasa Arvind (Santa Clara, Calif.), Benjamin Narin (Lincolnshire, Ill.), Melonee Wise (San Jose, Calif.) and Derek King (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot includes: a chassis supporting a locomotive assembly; a sensor; a processor configured, in a guided travel mode, to: detect an external force applied to the chassis in a first direction; control the sensor to capture sensor data corresponding to a physical environment of the mobile robot; d...