ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,880, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Perception and fitting for a stair tracker" was invented by Eric Cary Whitman (Watertown, Mass.) and Gene Brown Merewether (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for perception and fitting for a stair tracker includes receiving sensor data for a robot adjacent to a staircase. For each stair of the staircase, the method includes detecting, at a first time step, an edge of a respective stair of the staircase based on the sensor data. The method also includes determining whether the detected edge is a most likely step edge candidate by com...