US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 17 for "Safe and robust robotic picking of items based on reference image and item attributes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,652, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Safe and robust robotic picking of items based on reference image and item attributes" was invented by Fan Wang (Woburn, Mass.) and Jane Shi (Tewksbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for performing robotic picking of items based on a reference image and item attributes are described. In an example technique, an image of a picking environment having multiple items is obtained. A reference image of a first item is obtained, based on an item ID associated with the first item. An instance segmentation operation is performed on the...