ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,292, issued on March 24, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Location based change detection within image data by a mobile robot" was invented by Julian Ryde (East Hampton, Conn.), Yi Dong (Braintree, Mass.), Marco da Silva (Arlington, Mass.), Christopher Stathis (Bedford, Mass.) and Karthik Ramachandran (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for detecting changes at a location based on image data by a mobile robot. A system can instruct navigation of the mobile robot to a location. For example, the system can instruct navigation to the location as part of an inspectio...