US Patent Issued to Clutterbot on June 23 for "Clutter tidying robot utilizing floor segmentation for mapping and navigation system" (Indian, New Zealander, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,802, issued on June 23, was assigned to Clutterbot Inc. (Claymont, Del.).

"Clutter tidying robot utilizing floor segmentation for mapping and navigation system" was invented by Mahaveer Suthar (Bangalore, India), Akash Jadhav (Kingston, Canada), Justin David Hamilton (Wellington, New Zealand), Shantanu Singh (Bangalore, India) and Dhruv Krishna (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed for a clutter tidying robot utilizing floor segmentation for its mapping and navigation system, whereby a perception module and navigation module transform lidar and image data from lidar sensors and cameras ...