ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,678, issued on July 28, was assigned to Built Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"Autonomous alignment for a pile driving system" was invented by Anthony Guolla (Austin, Texas), Brian Lerner (Boca Raton, Fla.), Noah Austen Ready-Campbell (San Francisco) and Andrew Xiao Liang (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous pile driving system comprises an arm of an autonomous offroad vehicle (AOV) configured to hold and drive a pile, a chute configured to stabilize the pile as the pile is being driven. The autonomous pile driving system further comprises a controller configured to identify a location in the geographic area where a ...