US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 11 for "System for determining low-height obstacle for autonomous mobile device movement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,095, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"System for determining low-height obstacle for autonomous mobile device movement" was invented by Mohammad Hadi Tabatabaee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shreekant Gayaka (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile device (AMD) moves within a physical space that may include low-height obstacles (LHOs) that can be safely traversed. A sensor acquires depth image data including image data and distance data. The depth image data is processed to determine segmentation data, classifying pixels in the image as "floor" or "not floor". The segmentat...