ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,508, issued on March 17, was assigned to VisionNav Robotics USA Inc. (Acworth, Ga.).
"Mobile robot, controller, and mobile robot control method" was invented by Yulin Zhang (Acworth, Ga.), You Liu (Acworth, Ga.) and Jiexiong Deng (Acworth, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot, a controller, and a mobile robot control method are provided. The mobile robot includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute program instructions to implement the following steps: when it is determined that the mobile robot deviates from a preset path, determining a return point of the preset path that is closest to the mobile robot...