ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,784, issued on May 26, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time motion and path planner for robots" was invented by Leobardo Emmanuel Campos Macias (Guadalajara, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for real-time motion and path planning. The real-time motion and path planner may generate occupancy information about an environment around a robot. The occupancy information represents defined volumes of space of the environment, and each defined volume of space is associated with a corresponding occupancy probability. The motion/path planner also determines a seque...