US Patent Issued to Zimeno on April 15 for "Obstruction avoidance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,985, issued on April 15, was assigned to Zimeno Inc. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Obstruction avoidance" was invented by Deepak Rajasekhar Karishetti (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sanket Goyal (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obstruction avoidance system may include a agronomy vehicle, at least one sensor configured to output signals serving as a basis for a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud and to output signals corresponding to a two-dimensional (2D) image, and instructions to direct a processor to capture a particular 2D image and to obtain signals serving as a basis for a particular 3D point cloud; identify an obstructi...