US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 22 for "Preventing regressions in navigation determinations using logged trajectories" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,080, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Preventing regressions in navigation determinations using logged trajectories" was invented by Ammar Husain (San Francisco) and Ting Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving one or more past trajectories navigated by a robotic device in an environment, wherein the one or more past trajectories are associated with initial environmental sensor data and one or more obstacle detection heuristics. The method also includes determining, based at least on subsequent environmental sensor data, one or more updated obstacle d...