US Patent Issued to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology on Sept. 15 for "Path finding method and apparatus for robot, and device, and computer-readable storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,980, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Path finding method and apparatus for robot, and device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Shaoming Zhu (Suzhou, China) and Xue Ren (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot pathfinding method includes obtaining a position of a robot and a position of a charging base in a grid map; obtaining a shortest path from the position of the robot to the position of the charging base; determining candidate transfer stations from the position of the robot to the position of the charging base if the s...