US Patent Issued to Mihir Kothari on March 24 for "System and method of laundry singulation and flattening" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,268, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mihir Kothari (Niles, Ill.).

"System and method of laundry singulation and flattening" was invented by Mihir Kothari (Niles, Ill.), Jeff Faye (Chicago) and Alexander Chan (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method of processing laundry include a first vision system configured to identify a first corner of the piece of laundry. A first end effector of a first robotic arm retains the first corner of the piece of laundry and suspends the piece of laundry from the first end effector. A second vision system is operable to identify a second corner of the piece of laundry. A second e...