US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Sept. 8 for "Robust docking of robots with imperfect sensing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,747, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Robust docking of robots with imperfect sensing" was invented by Dion Gonano (Somerville, Mass.), Eric Cary Whitman (Arlington, Mass.), Christopher Stathis (Bedford, Mass.) and Matthew Jacob Klingensmith (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware of a legged robot causes the data processing hardware to perform operations including receiving sensor data corresponding to an area including at least a portion of a docking station. The operations include determining an estimated pos...