ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,674, issued on July 14, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).
"Stability prediction for three dimensional robotic bin packing" was invented by Siddharth Mayya (East Boston, Mass.), Bryan Masson (Marlborough, Mass.) and Saraswathi Nambi (Natick, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods for stability prediction for 3D robotic bin packing are described. A set of contact points for a first item at a first candidate placement position may be determined. A first contact point having a minimum value along a first coordinate dimension and a second contact point having a maximum value along t...