ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,278, issued on March 24, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).
"Robot navigation" was invented by Aditya Shiwaji Rasam (McLean, Va.), Timon Meyer (Centreville, Va.), Narayanan Ramanathan (Chantilly, Va.), Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.), Glenn Tournier (Vienna, Va.), Suyash Yeotikar (McLean, Va.) and Scott Almes (Laurel, Md.).
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 navigation. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images of an area from a robot; detecting two or more lines within the one or more images; iden...