ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,421, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Facility navigation localization for mobile autonomous robot" was invented by Joseph Scaglione (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), William J. Green (Cary, N.C.), Karl Owen Casserly (Valley Stream, N.Y.) and Mateusz Koziol (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilitating navigation localization for a mobile robot operating autonomously can include a deployment of a retractable landmark in a work area in response to an operational threshold not being met for a mobile robot to autonomously operate traversing the work area. The operational thr...