ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,719, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to JABIL INC..

"Apparatus, system, and method of certifying sensing for autonomous robot navigation" was invented by Charles Martin (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Christopher Jones (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system and method of for certifying a sensor that at least partially navigates an autonomous mobile robot. The apparatus may include at least a robot body; at least one light source resident on the robot body proximate to the sensing camera such that the at least one light source is capable of at least partially irradiating a field of view (FoV) of the sensi...