ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,920, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Detection of heavy objects in robotic induction" was invented by Rohun Kulkarni (Palo Alto, Calif.), Harshit Shah (Menlo Park, Calif.), Toby Leonard Baker (Redwood City, Calif.), David Leo Tondreau III (San Francisco), Harry Zhe Su (Union City, Calif.), Talbot Morris-Downing (Redwood City, Calif.), Darshan Hegde (Foster City, Calif.) and Timothy Ryan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a system, a method, and a computer system for moving items deemed to be too heavy to be picked up by a robotic arm. The method i...