US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on May 19 for "Systems and methods for accelerated obstacle detection for a robotic device" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,844, issued on May 19, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for accelerated obstacle detection for a robotic device" was invented by Ryan Haldimann (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive, from a robotic device, time-of-flight sensor data that includes a point cloud derived from depth images of an environment with a floor and one or more obstacles, and may shift the depth images by a number of pixels to generate shifted depth images. The device may subtract the shifted depth images from the depth images to generate final images, and may calculate Euclidean d...