US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Swing anomaly detection for robotic manipulation of objects" (Washington, Massachusetts, Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,687, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Swing anomaly detection for robotic manipulation of objects" was invented by Avnish Sachar (Watertown, Mass.), Lixuan Luo (Seattle), Dhruv Kool Rajamani (Washington), Azarakhsh Keipour (Midlothian, Va.) and Sicong Zhao (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to swing anomaly detection for objects transferred via robotic manipulation. For example, a computer system can generate, based on first sensor data of a robotic manipulator manipulating an object and by using a machine learning model, a first segmentation of the obje...