ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,067, issued on May 19, was assigned to Anker Innovations Technology Co. Ltd. (Changsha, China).

"Threshold-type obstacle recognition" was invented by Haotian Wei (Shenzhen, China), Yixin Xu (Shenzhen, China), Zhaoqin Guo (Shenzhen, China) and Caokai Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a threshold-type obstacle recognition method, an orientation recognition method of a threshold-type obstacle, and a robot control method. With the robot control method of the present application, using the recognition results of the threshold-type obstacle and the recognition results of the orientation of...