US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 4 for "Shared dense network with robot task-specific heads" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,711, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Shared dense network with robot task-specific heads" was invented by Michael Quinlan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sean Kirmani (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving image data representing an environment of a robotic device from a camera on the robotic device. The method further includes applying a trained dense network to the image data to generate a set of feature values, where the trained dense network has been trained to accomplish a first robot vision task. The method additionally includes applying a trained task-specific he...