US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on May 12 for "System to determine humans in a physical space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,476, issued on May 12, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System to determine humans in a physical space" was invented by Boshen Niu (San Mateo, Calif.) and Shreekant Gayaka (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical space includes humans and other objects. Humans may be dynamic in that they move while nonhuman objects may not move over time. An autonomous mobile device (AMD) determines which objects are human or other. Once determined, information about which objects are humans or not is used to provide functions such as facilitating interactions with people, determining accurate occupancy maps that ...