US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 15 for "Selecting a frontier goal for autonomous map building within a space" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,982, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Selecting a frontier goal for autonomous map building within a space" was invented by Jiangtao Ren (Beijing), Lei Xu Jr. (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing), Yanming Zou (Beijing), Ruowei Wang (Beijing), Lei Ma (San Diego), Xiaolong Shi (Beijing) and Jingwei Rao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods executed by a processor of a robotic device for selecting a frontier goal for autonomous map building within a space, including determining trajectory costs for the robotic device traversing from an occupied area to each of a plurality of available...