US Patent Issued to Canrig Robotic Technologies AS on Aug. 25 for "Control robot for ground operation based on 3D model" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,130, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canrig Robotic Technologies AS (Sandnes, Norway).

"Control robot for ground operation based on 3D model" was invented by Orjan Helgaland Larsen (Sandnes, Norway) and Kenneth Mikalsen (Sandnes, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that can include receiving a three-dimensional (3D) model of the vehicle at a control system, positioning the vehicle within a 3D ground operational space, manipulating a robotic arm to position a sensor at a predetermined distance from a reference location of the vehicle, measuring, via the sensor, a distance from the sensor to the reference location, determ...