ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,508, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HAYSTACK ROBOTICS INC. (Portland, Ore.).
"Automated robotic ground-truth, checklists, and physical traceability" was invented by Paul R. West (Portland, Ore.) and Mahadev Eakambaram (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for detecting and identifying discrepancies of states of objects and/or areas of interest in a space. In some aspects, an autonomous device may collect ground truth data of a space including information identifying objects each associated with a location in the space, and a condition associated with at least some of the objects. A check...