ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,109, issued on March 24, was assigned to Chiun Mai Communication Systems Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"System and method for picking and placing objects" was invented by Tung-Chun Hsieh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chung-Wei Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Ko Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Li (New Taipei, Taiwan), Sung-Chuan Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan), Tze-Chin Lo (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Ming Ko (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for picking and placing objects, includes capturing at least one first image of the object at a first time point and at least one second image at a second time point; iden...