ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,063, issued on May 19, was assigned to AMICRO SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Zhuhai, China).

"Positioning method for ceiling vision robot" was invented by Ming Li (Zhuhai, China) and Yongyong Li (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method for a ceiling vision robot are provided. The method includes: during a moving process, a ceiling vision robot acquiring a ceiling image in real time; acquiring existing road sign distribution information according to the ceiling image; determining whether to establish a new road sign, according to the existing road sign distribution information, if so, establishing a new road sign at ...