ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,374, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).
"Method for characterizing the environment of a mobile device, producing a static space grid and/or a free space grid" was invented by Tiana Rakotovao Andriamahefa (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterizing the environment of a mobile device, wherein, for each iteration at a time t, the following steps are implemented: S10) Acquiring a plurality of distance measurements (zt) in the environment by way of at least one sensor; S20) Generating a pair (wt) of occupancy grids at the time t-1 (OGt...