ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,574, issued on May 5, was assigned to Chef Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"Container classification system and/or method" was invented by John Unkovic (San Francisco), Rajat Bhageria (San Francisco), Norberto A. Goussies (San Francisco), Clement Creusot (San Francisco), Somudro Gupta (San Francisco), Tom Achache (San Francisco), Luis Rayas (San Francisco) and Vinny Senthil (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method can include: determining image data; identifying a container using an object detector; and classifying a container state. The method can optionally include performing an action based on the container state clas...