US Patent Issued to Avidbots on July 28 for "System and method of semantic segmentation for a cleaning device" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,665, issued on July 28, was assigned to Avidbots Corp (Kitchener, Canada).

"System and method of semantic segmentation for a cleaning device" was invented by Ali Jahani (Toronto), Adel Fakih (Waterloo, Canada), Egor Bredikhin (Kitchener, Canada), Yoohee Choi (Waterloo, Canada), Umer Rasheed (Waterloo, Canada) and Abhishank Gaba (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of semantic segmentation for an autonomous or semi-autonomous cleaning device. By using machine learning and visual data, one can teach an algorithm (e.g., a deep neural network) to distinguish between ground and non-ground spaces. The non-gr...