ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,953, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"System and method of fusing wireless and visual features for robust robot state estimation" was invented by Sandeep Reddy Baddam (Pittsburgh), Sirajum Munir (Pittsburgh), Jonathan Francis (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 operating a mobile robot with respect to a reference location. First state data is generated using first sensor data obtained from a first se...