ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,791, issued on May 26, 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), Chih-Wei Li (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Ko Yu (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 at least one object at a first time point and at least one second image at a second time point;...