US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Aug. 4 for "System and process for picking tires in an unknown arrangement" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,165, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"System and process for picking tires in an unknown arrangement" was invented by Jean-Marie Dettorre (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Nicolas Bard (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Quentin Deniau (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Mohamed-Abbas Konate (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Mickael Rouby (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for directing the movement of a robot (102) with a gripper (108) that picks a target tire (P*) from an arrangement of tires includes the following steps: providing a system (100) for...