Patents by Inventor Benjamin C. Stringer

Benjamin C. Stringer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12372944
    Abstract: A method is provided for causing one or more robots to execute a mission. The method includes determining a behavior tree in which the mission is modeled, and causing the one or more robots to execute the mission using the behavior tree and a leaf node library. The behavior tree is expressed as a directed tree of nodes including a switch node, a trigger node representing a selected task, and action nodes representing others of the tasks. The switch node is connected to the trigger node and the action nodes in a parent-child relationship in which the trigger node and the action nodes are children of the switch node. The trigger node is a first of the children that, when ticked by the switch node, returns an identifier of one of the action nodes to trigger the switch node to next tick the one of the action nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jeffery Saunders, Benjamin C. Stringer
  • Publication number: 20220035339
    Abstract: A method is provided for causing one or more robots to execute a mission. The method includes determining a behavior tree in which the mission is modeled, and causing the one or more robots to execute the mission using the behavior tree and a leaf node library. The behavior tree is expressed as a directed tree of nodes including a switch node, a trigger node representing a selected task, and action nodes representing others of the tasks. The switch node is connected to the trigger node and the action nodes in a parent-child relationship in which the trigger node and the action nodes are children of the switch node. The trigger node is a first of the children that, when ticked by the switch node, returns an identifier of one of the action nodes to trigger the switch node to next tick the one of the action nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffery Saunders, Benjamin C. Stringer