US Patent Issued on Sept. 29 for "Robot pose estimation" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,947, issued on Sept. 29.

"Robot pose estimation" was invented by Narayanan Ramanathan (Chantilly, Va.), Timon Meyer (Centreville, Va.), Aditya Shiwaji Rasam (McLean, Va.), Gang Qian (McLean, Va.), Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.) and Glenn Tournier (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for estimating a robot pose. One of the methods includes the actions of obtaining two or more images captured at two or more locations on a property; detecting feature points at positions within two or more images including first feature points in...