US Patent Issued to Bright Machines on Nov. 3 for "Vision-based programless assembly" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,920, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bright Machines Inc. (San Francisco).

"Vision-based programless assembly" was invented by Barrett Christopher Clark (Atlanta), Emmanuel Gallo (Oakland, Calif.), Ali Shafiekhani (San Francisco), Pattawong Pansodtee (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Staub (San Francisco) and Murali Pappoppula (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of programless assembly of a device using a robotic cell comprising calibrating a robotic cell for generating a product model, the robotic cell including an end-of-arm camera and utilizing the robotic cell to generate the product model of the device for a...