US Patent Issued to Cognex on Sept. 15 for "System and method for estimating box shape representation of a generally cuboidal object" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,902, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cognex Corp. (Natick, Mass.).

"System and method for estimating box shape representation of a generally cuboidal object" was invented by Hongwei Zhu (Natick, Mass.), Daniel Moreno (Northbridge, Mass.), Ali M. Zadeh (Greenville, S.C.) and Martin Schaufuss (Erfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for estimating a 3D box model of a generally cuboidal 3D object imaged by 3D vision system, which provides a 3D image having a set of 3D points representing surfaces of the cuboidal 3D object to a processor is provided. An input process provides an approximate box as a region...