ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,118, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Robotic device workspace mapping" was invented by Leobardo Campos Macias (Guadalajara, Mexico), Julio Zamora Esquivel (Zapopan, Mexico), Paulo Lopez Meyer (Zapopan, Mexico), Hector Alfonso Cordourier Maruri (Guadalajara, Mexico), Alejandro Ibarra Von Borstel (Manchaca, Texas) and Edgar Macias Garcia (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques to map a workspace for a robotic device are described herein. The robotic device has a movable portion with a sensor that is used to capture readings from part of the workspace. These readings...