US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Sept. 1 for "Perception module for a mobile manipulator robot" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,315, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Perception module for a mobile manipulator robot" was invented by Matthew Turpin (Newton, Mass.), Alex Perkins (Lincoln, Mass.), Michael Murphy (Carlisle, Mass.), Liam Mulshine (Cambridge, Mass.), Arash Ushani (Cambridge, Mass.) and Benjamin Zelnick (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes a structural support rigidly coupled to a surface of a mobile robot and a plurality of perception modules, each of which is arranged on the structural support, has a different field of view, and includes a two-dimensional (2D) camera c...