ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,900, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Method and system for localising a robot using a scale plan of a designated environment" was invented by Chee Leong Raymond Chan (Singapore), Jun Li (Singapore), Jian Le Chan (Singapore), Zhengguo Li (Singapore) and Kong Wah Wan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for localising a robot 100 using a scale plan of a designated environment are provided herein. In an embodiment, the method comprises: identifying reference features from the scale plan 136; generating a predicted pose 156 of the robot's current location...