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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2023
Applicant:
Boston Dynamics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Inventors:
Alex Broad, Somerville, MA (US);
Karthik Ramachandran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yi Dong, Braintree, MA (US);
Assignee:
Boston Dynamics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 5/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); G06T 17/10 (2006.01); G06V 10/40 (2022.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 5/00 (2013.01); B25J 9/1666 (2013.01); G06T 17/10 (2013.01); G06V 10/40 (2022.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for operating a mobile robot in a loading dock environment are provided. The method comprises capturing, by a camera system of the mobile robot, at least one image of the loading dock environment, and processing, by at least one hardware processor of the mobile robot, the at least one image using a machine learning model trained to identify one or more features of the loading dock environment.