ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,090, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Environmental feature-specific actions for robot navigation" was invented by Matthew Jacob Klingensmith (Somerville, Mass.), Adam Komoroski (Westwood, Mass.), Brian Masao Yamauchi (Boston), Michael James McDonald (Cambridge, Mass.) and Christopher Stathis (Bedford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for reacting to a feature in an environment of a robot based on a classification of the feature. A system can detect the feature in the environment using a first sensor on the robot. For example, the system can detect the fe...