ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,728, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Robotic handling of soft products in non-rigid packaging" was invented by Kevin Jose Chavez (Redwood City, Calif.), Robert Hegdahl (Hayward, Calif.), Yuan Gao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew Lovett (Burlingame, Calif.), Roger Lam Hau (San Carlos, Calif.) and Samir Menon (Atherton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed to perform robotic handling of soft products in non-rigid packaging. In various embodiments, sensor data associated with a workspace is received. An action to be performed in the workspace using one or more robotic eleme...