ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,452, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Annotating base map" was invented by Brendon Lu (Sugar Land, Texas) and Sandra Fabiano (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to translating between a base map of an industrial facility and robot specific map(s) utilized by robot(s) to navigate about the industrial facility. First translation data is generated based on comparing the base map and a first robot map, and second translation data is generated based on comparing the base map and a second robot map. Using the first and second translation data, a pose of a first enviro...