ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,493, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Autonomous unknown object pick and place" was invented by Kevin Jose Chavez (Redwood City, Calif.), Zhouwen Sun (Redwood City, Calif.), Rohit Arka Pidaparthi (Mountain View, Calif.), Talbot Morris-Downing (Redwood City, Calif.), Harry Zhe Su (Union City, Calif.), Ben Varkey Benjamin Pottayil (Fremont, Calif.) and Samir Menon (Atherton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of one or more potentially graspable features for one or more objects present in a workspace area are determined based on visual data received from a plurality of cameras. For each...