US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Sept. 22 for "Methods and apparatuses for dropped object detection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,380, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatuses for dropped object detection" was invented by Andrew Hoelscher (Somerville, Mass.), Samuel Shaw (Somerville, Mass.), Alexander Ozer (Somerville, Mass.), Jennifer Barry (Arlington, Mass.) and Matthew Turpin (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for detecting one or more objects (e.g., dropped objects) by a robotic device are described. The method comprises receiving a distance-based point cloud including a plurality of points in three dimensions, filtering the distance-based point cloud to remove po...