US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on March 3 for "Interactive detection of obstacle status in mobile robots" (California, Washington, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,451, issued on March 3, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Interactive detection of obstacle status in mobile robots" was invented by Melonee Wise (San Jose, Calif.), Aaron Hoy (San Jose, Calif.), Derek King (Seattle), Micaela Angeli (Lincolnshire, Ill.) and Chinmay Shah (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: at a mobile robot, travelling according to a current path; using a sensor of the mobile robot, capturing sensor data representing a vicinity of the mobile robot; detecting, based on the sensor data, an obstacle obstructing the current path; in response to detecting the ob...