ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,949, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Mobile robot with optimal control strategies under sensor uncertainties" was invented by Sandeep Reddy Baddam (Pittsburgh), Jonathan Francis I (Pittsburgh), Sirajum Munir (Pittsburgh), Sushanta Rakshit (Milpitas, Calif.), Martin Coors (Mountain View, Calif.), Samarjit Das (Wexford, Pa.) and Vivek Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method relate to a mobile robot. State data is generated using sensor data from at least one sensor. A current confident zone is identified on a unified confident zone map usi...