US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on June 2 for "Systems and methods for probabilistic consensus on feature distribution for multi-robot systems with markovian exploration dynamics" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,305, issued on June 2, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for probabilistic consensus on feature distribution for multi-robot systems with markovian exploration dynamics" was invented by Aniket Shirsat (Tempe, Ariz.), Spring Berman (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Shatadal Mishra (Tempe, Ariz.) and Wenlong Zhang (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consensus-based decentralized multi-robot approach is presented for reconstructing a discrete distribution of features, modeled as an occupancy grid map, that represent information contained in a bounded plana...