US Patent Issued to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing on July 28 for "Evaluation of a ground region for landing a robot" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,133, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing Co. (Manassas, Va.).

"Evaluation of a ground region for landing a robot" was invented by Nathan Otenti (Brighton, Mass.), Joseph Chung (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jeffery Saunders (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of supporting robot(s) landing within a ground region is provided. The method includes accessing a map in which the ground region is tessellated into cells covering respective areas of the ground region. Each cell is classified as feasible to indicate a respective area is feasible for landing, or infeasible to ind...