US Patent Issued to THE TORO on Nov. 3 for "Autonomous machine navigation with object detection and 3D point cloud" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,941, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Autonomous machine navigation with object detection and 3D point cloud" was invented by Trevor M. Porter (Minneapolis) and Alexander S. Frick (Farmington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous machine navigation techniques may determine vision-based pose data based on feature data and object recognition data extracted from images. The vision-based pose data may be used to generate a three-dimensional point cloud that represents at least a work region. The vision-based pose data may be used to determine an operational vision-based pose relative to ...