US Patent Issued to INUITIVE on April 15 for "Self-localizing system operative in an unknown environment" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,986, issued on April 15, was assigned to INUITIVE LTD. (Ra'anana, Israel).

"Self-localizing system operative in an unknown environment" was invented by Idan Ram (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Ady Ecker (Ness Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system configured to operate in an unknown, possibly texture-less environment, with possibly self-similar surfaces, and comprising a plurality of platforms configured to operate as mobile platforms, where each of these platforms comprises an optical depth sensor, and one platform operates as a static platform and comprising at least one optical projector. Upon operating the system, the stati...