US Patent Issued to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing on Aug. 11 for "Conflict detection and avoidance for a robot based on perception uncertainty" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,852, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing Co. (Manassas, Va.).

"Conflict detection and avoidance for a robot based on perception uncertainty" was invented by Ryan King-Shepard (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for detecting and avoiding conflict during a mission of a robot that includes a global route of travel. The method includes monitoring a state of the robot and a state of an environment of the robot as the robot travels the global route. The method includes generating a local route of travel through a region of the environment that includ...