US Patent Issued to Skild-Fetch on Sept. 8 for "De-centralized traffic-aware navigational planning for mobile robots" (California, Washington, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,449, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Skild-Fetch LLC (Pittsburgh).

"De-centralized traffic-aware navigational planning for mobile robots" was invented by Melonee Wise (San Jose, Calif.), Aaron Hoy (San Jose, Calif.), Derek King (Seattle), Micaela Angeli (Lincolnshire, Ill.) and Chinmay Shah (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: storing an occupancy map for a facility, the occupancy map defining: for each of a plurality of regions in the facility, a current occupancy for a present time value, and for each of at least a subset of the regions, a future occupancy for a subsequent time value; generating a ...