US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Feb. 10 for "Methods and apparatus for modeling loading dock environments" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,932, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for modeling loading dock environments" was invented by Alex Broad (Somerville, Mass.), Karthik Ramachandran (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yi Dong (Braintree, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for operating a mobile robot in a loading dock environment are provided. The method comprises capturing, by a camera system of the mobile robot, at least one image of the loading dock environment, and processing, by at least one hardware processor of the mobile robot, the at least one image using a machine learning model trai...