ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,447, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for multi-object navigation in real environments" was invented by Assem Sadek (Grenoble, France), Guillaume Bono (Crolles, France), Christian Wolf (Fontaines Saint Martin, France), Boris Chidlovskii (Meylan, France) and Atilla Baskurt (Meyzieu, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigating robot includes: a feature module configured to detect objects in images captured by a camera of the navigating robot while the navigating robot is in a real world space; a mapping module configured to generate a map including locations of objec...