US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on June 3 for "Visual guidance for locating obstructed mobile robots" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,915, issued on June 3, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Visual guidance for locating obstructed mobile robots" was invented by Melonee Wise (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Arandorenko (Mississauga, Canada), Benjamin Narin (Lincolnshire, Ill.) and Achal Arvind (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining a pose of a mobile computing device associated with a worker in a facility; detecting a trigger event to initiate presentation, at the mobile computing device, of visual guidance corresponding to one of a plurality of mobile robots in the facility; in response to detecting th...