US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Lidar sensor system for enabling or disabling use of a robotic arm" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,546, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Lidar sensor system for enabling or disabling use of a robotic arm" was invented by Lucjan K. Perlowski (Wheatley Heights, N.Y.), Robert E. Beach (Los Altos, Calif.), Chinmay Nanda (Central Islip, N.Y.) and Yosef Nofal (Bronx, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a robotic device may receive, from a first light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor and a second LIDAR sensor, calibration data associated with a physical environment of a robotic arm of the robotic device. The robotic device may determine, based on the calibrati...