US Patent Issued to AVIDBOTS on June 23 for "System and method of minimum turn coverage of arbitrary non-convex regions" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,975, issued on June 23, was assigned to AVIDBOTS CORP.

"System and method of minimum turn coverage of arbitrary non-convex regions" was invented by Megnath Ramesh (Waterloo, Canada), Francis Christopher Imeson (Kitchener, Canada), Stephen Smith (Kitchener, Canada) and Baris Fidan (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of minimum turn coverage of arbitrary non-convex regions. Coverage planning is the task of generating a path that ensures the tool carried by the robot covers all regions of interest. The number of turns in the path can affect the time to cover the region and the quality of coverage (tools...