US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 25 for "Biomechanical object weight estimation system" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,124, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Biomechanical object weight estimation system" was invented by Robert Lawson Vaughn (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of an object weight estimation system are described, to enable weight estimation of an object to be transferred from an object source (e.g., a human or an ambulatory robot) that holds the object using one or more arms. One technique includes: tracking an object to be transferred from the object source to a robot; identifying, from at least one image captured by the robot, a posture of the object source; identifying...