Abstract
AI Incorporated (Toronto, Canada) has been issued patent number 11899463, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx editors. The patent’s inventors are Ebrahimi Afrouzi, Ali (Henderson, NV, US), Mehrnia, Soroush (Helsingborg, SE), Robinson, Lukas (York, CA). This patent was filed on August 5, 2022 and was published online on February 13, 2024. From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: “Autonomous or semi-autonomous robotic devices are increasingly used within consumer homes and commercial establishments. Such devices may include a robotic vacuum cleaner, lawn mower, mop, or other similar devices. To operate autonomously or with minimal (or less than fully manual) input and/or external control within an environment, methods such as mapping, localization, object recognition, and path planning methods, among others, are required such that robotic devices may autonomously create a map of the environment, subsequently use the map for navigation, and devise intelligent path plans and task plans for efficient navigation and task completion.”