ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,495, issued on March 31, was assigned to UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for determining pose of robot, robot and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yulong Gu (Shenzhen, China), Youjun Xiong (Shenzhen, China), Simin Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Yun Zhao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a pose of a robot having a lidar including: obtaining a first pose of the robot in a map coordinate system; determining first positions of laser points corresponding to the lidar in the map coordinate system according to the first pose when the lidar performs laser scanning; det...