ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,776, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Brain Corp. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for constructing high resolution panoramic imagery for feature identification on robotic devices" was invented by Micah Richert (San Diego) and Guru-Koushik Senthil-Kumar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for constructing high resolution panoramic imagery for feature identification on robotic devices are disclosed herein. According to at least one non-limiting exemplary embodiment, a robot collects a plurality of images of an environment, these images include large overlap in their visual scenes. Using additional image da...