US Patent Issued on June 16 for "Autonomous devices, systems, and methods for queuing folded laundry" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,958, issued on June 16.

"Autonomous devices, systems, and methods for queuing folded laundry" was invented by Madeline R. Hickman (Arlington, Mass.), Samuel Duffley (Somerville, Mass.), Jesse Sielaff (Norfolk, Mass.) and Benjamin D. Bixby (Newton Highlands, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for autonomously stacking and compressing a plurality of unbound folded laundry articles in a packing queue are described. A method includes receiving output signal from one or more sensors determinative of the height of an unbound folded laundry article disposed on a conveyor configured to deposit the unbound fold...