ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,012, issued on April 21.
"System and method for autonomous mobile robot relocalization" was invented by Mohammad Haghighipanah (Tigard, Ore.) and Rita Chattopadhyay (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of methods, systems, and use cases include techniques for robotic relocalization. A robot may be configured to perform relocalization using operations to determine a cause of a loss of pose; use a nearest neighbor process to select a set of milestones from a roadmap when the cause of the loss of pose is due to a malfunction, or use a ranking process to select the set of milestones from the roadmap when the c...