ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,210, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ULC Technologies LLC (Hauppauge, N.Y.).

"Autonomous collaborative robotic system and method" was invented by Ali Asmari (Center Moriches, N.Y.), Guoxuan Zhang (Hauppauge, N.Y.), Sergio Flores (Union City, N.J.) and Mersim Redzematovic (Lynbrook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous collaborative robotic system for automatically detecting, locating, and mapping underground assets is provided. The collaborative robotic system includes two autonomous robots, each robot including a housing with extendable legs, a camera module, a laser module designed to project a structure light patte...