US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Instance-wise, multi-modal, grasp generation systems and methods for robotic end of arm tools" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,717, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Instance-wise, multi-modal, grasp generation systems and methods for robotic end of arm tools" was invented by Zhe Huang (North Reading, Mass.), Fan Wang (Andover, Mass.) and Jianying Shi (Tewksbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instance-wise, multi-modal, grasp generation systems and methods may process imaging data and depth data of items in order to generate item grasping data. For example, imaging data and depth data may be processed to isolate single items or instances as instance data. Then, the instance data may be processed using heuristic and/...