ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,830, issued on April 21, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Robot planning for gaps" was invented by Tim Niemueller (Gauting, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for robot planning. One of the methods includes maintaining a library of pre-generated candidate actions that represent respective robot capabilities; receiving an initial task plan for performing a particular task, wherein the initial task plan includes a sequence of two or more actions that comprises a first action followed by a second action;...