US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 26 for "Robot trajectory under collision constraints" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,431, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Robot trajectory under collision constraints" was invented by Zherong Pan (Bellevue, Wash.), Xifeng Gao (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kui Wu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry selects surrogate time instances respectively representing temporal subsets of a time duration of a first intermediate trajectory for a robot. The processing circuitry determines surrogate constraints respectively associated the surrogate time instances, the surrogate constraints require a distance between the robot and an obstacle to satisfy a safe distance ...