ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,333, issued on June 16, was assigned to UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and device for obstacle avoidance control for robot and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Xuan Luo (Shenzhen, China) and Chunyu Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obstacle avoidance control method for a robot includes: obtaining, by a depth camera perception system, envelope motion information of each movable obstacle in a target operating environment in a current control cycle, and accessing a pre-stored actual voxel block position of each environmental obstacle in the target operating environment, wherein...