ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,955, issued on March 3, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Modeling robot self-occlusion for localization" was invented by Matthew Klingensmith (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for localizing a robot in an environment are provided. The method comprises determining, for a first configuration of the robot at a first time, first sensor data that is not occluded by a portion of the robot, determining, for a second configuration of the robot at a second time, second sensor data that is not occluded by a portion of the robot, determining first overlapping data corresponding to sec...