ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,323, issued on June 16, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Surface marking robots and obstacles" was invented by Lluis Abello Rosello (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Ramon Viedma Ponce (Sant Cugat de Valles, Spain), Borja Navas Sanchez (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Xavier Oliva Ventayol (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method comprises receiving a digital representation of a floor plan to be printed by a surface marking robot guided using a remote guiding system, receiving guiding system position information, and receiving obstacle information ide...