US Patent Issued to Dexterity on July 21 for "Hardware-accelerated ray-tracing for intelligent robot task execution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,128, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Hardware-accelerated ray-tracing for intelligent robot task execution" was invented by Andrew Bylard (San Mateo, Calif.), Zhouwen Sun (San Mateo, Calif.) and Shitij Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of hardware-accelerated raytracing for intelligent robot task execution is disclosed. In various embodiments, data comprising a geometric representation of a robot and one or more obstacles in a workspace in which the robot is located are used to determine, with respect to a pose of the robot in the workspace, whether the pose is as...