US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on July 14 for "Method and system for localizing a mobile robot" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,489, issued on July 14, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Method and system for localizing a mobile robot" was invented by Saurab Verma (Singapore), Syed Zeezhan Ahmed Mukhtar (Singapore), Kun Zhang (Singapore), Nicolas Andre Gauthier (Singapore), Kam Pheng Ng (Singapore), Yuda Chen (Singapore), Chong Boon Tan (Singapore) and Albertus Hendrawan Adiwahono (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of localizing a mobile robot with respect to a target object using an initial map of a reference object which is a representation of the target object are disclosed. In a specific em...