US Patent Issued to Cobalt AI on Feb. 24 for "Automated route selection by a mobile robot" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,935, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cobalt AI LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Automated route selection by a mobile robot" was invented by Travis J. Deyle (San Carlos, Calif.), Erik Schluntz (Mountain View, Calif.), Peregrine Badger (San Mateo, Calif.), Sarvagya Vaish (Albany, Calif.) and Michael J. O'Kelly (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot is configured for operation in a commercial or industrial setting, such as an office building or retail store. The robot can patrol one or more routes within a building, and can detect violations of security policies by objects, building infrastructure and security sys...