ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,403, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LIBERTY ROBOTICS INC. (Dexter, Mich.).

"Method and system for optimizing pose of a picking tool with respect to an item to be picked from a transport structure" was invented by G. Neil Haven (Clearwater, Idaho) and John Henry Walters (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for optimizing the pose of a picking tool with respect to at least one previously selected item in a topmost layer of target items to be picked from a transport structure are provided. The method includes the step of generating all legal poses of the picking tool with respect to the configuration ...