ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,769, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).
"Obstacle recognition method for autonomous robots" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.) and Soroush Mehrnia (Soeborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot, including: a plurality of sensors; a processor; a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: capturing, with an image sensor, images of a workspace as the robot moves within the workspace; identifying, with the processor, at least one characteristic of at least one object captured in th...