US Patent Issued to Intrinsic Innovation on Aug. 4 for "Sensor-based adaptation for manipulation of deformable workpieces" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,732, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sensor-based adaptation for manipulation of deformable workpieces" was invented by Martin Bokeloh (Munich), Martina Marek (Munich), Stefan Hinterstoisser (Munich), Olivier Pauly (Munich) and Hauke Heibel (Hohenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing deformation modeling with edge-to-edge constraints. One of the methods includes computing edge-to-edge constraints that match one or more edges in point cloud data to on...