ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,992, issued on March 31, was assigned to DEXORY Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Method for measuring and analyzing packages for storage" was invented by Andrei Danescu (London), Adrian Negoita (London) and Matthew MacLeod (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring and analysing packages particularly for optimising storage in a warehouse or for packing for transporting. The method follows the steps of placing packages on a floor surface moving a robot to adjacent one of the packages. Lidar or similar is used to measuring distance data from the robot to the package at a multiple heights from at least 0.5 m above the floor su...