US Patent Issued to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology on Sept. 15 for "Grid map-based robot pathfinding method and apparatus, robot and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,977, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology Co. Ltd (Suzhou, China).

"Grid map-based robot pathfinding method and apparatus, robot and storage medium" was invented by Shaoming Zhu (Suzhou, China) and Lichao Yuan (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grid map-based robot pathfinding method includes obtaining a first grid map and a second grid map, wherein the second grid map is generated by merging grids in the first grid map, and the resolution of the second grid map is lower than that of the first grid map; planning a travel path of a robot from a current position to a preset tar...