ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,104, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TinyMobileRobots ApS (Malling, Denmark).

"Method for interactively providing waypoints to a mobile robot for use in the marking of a geometric figure on a ground surface" was invented by Peter Jensen (Skanderborg, Denmark), Palle Flydtkjaer (Herning, Denmark), Jens Peder Kvols Kristensen (Malling, Denmark) and Kristian Korsgaard (Aarhus C, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of vector format graphics with robot marking, allowing the end user to design and use his own templates. By using vector graphics formats as a tool to let the user make his own templates, the user will have the fle...