ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,930, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Mobile Industrial Robots Inc. (Holbrook, N.Y.).
"Identifying transport structures" was invented by Peter C. Gaston (Gloucester, Mass.) and Syed Mohammed Jerrar Bukhari (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method is performed by one or more processing devices and includes the following: identifying one or more features based on data obtained from a two-dimensional scan of a space, where the data includes predefined characteristics; identifying physical attributes of the one or more features; performing calculations based on the physical attributes for the one or more features, where...