US Patent Issued to AI on March 17 for "Remote distance estimation system and method" (Canadian, Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,677, issued on March 17, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Remote distance estimation system and method" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.), Soroush Mehrnia (Helsingborg, Sweden) and Lukas Robinson (York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Included is a method for estimating distance, including: emitting, with at least one light emitter disposed on a robot, a light structure onto objects; capturing, with at least one image sensor disposed on the robot, images of the light structure emitted onto the objects; identifying, with a processor, the light structure within the images; determining, with the processor,...