ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,606, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Salem, Ore.).

"Robotic manipulation with bimanual and nonprehensile aspects and related technology" was invented by Martin Fevre (Pittsburgh), Tyler Morrison (Pittsburgh), Taylor Apgar (Portland, Ore.) and Alejandro Perez (Manchester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present technology includes receiving, by a computing system operably associated with a robot, information corresponding to a position of an object in a working environment. The method further includes selecting, by the computing system and based...