ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,106, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Berkshire Grey Operating Co. Inc. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Item processing systems and methods employing parameter exploration" was invented by Dimitry Pechyoni (Newton, Mass.), Christopher Geyer (Arlington, Mass.) and Lev Grossman (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system is disclosed for an item processing system with a programmable motion device, said control system including a parameter estimator for estimating item handling parameters for items for which at least some parameters are known, a parameter explorer for identifying item handling parameters of items for which no ...