US Patent Issued to Dusty Robotics on April 14 for "Method of operating a printing robot in shadows" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,050, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dusty Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method of operating a printing robot in shadows" was invented by Philipp Josef Herget (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nickolas Rossi (San Mateo, Calif.) and Michael Thompson (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile printing robot system for printing a construction layout. The method addresses a problem that occurs when there is a loss of a tracking lock to an absolute positioning device, such as a total station. In a construction site, a line of sight between a mobile robot and an absolute positioning device may be lost when the mobile rob...