US Patent Issued to Naver, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees on May 19 for "Systems and methods for grasping objects like humans using robot grippers" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,820, issued on May 19, was assigned to Naver Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees (Marne-la-Vallee, France).

"Systems and methods for grasping objects like humans using robot grippers" was invented by Yuming Du (Champs-sur-Marne, France), Romain Bregier (Grenoble, France), Philippe Weinzaepfel (Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France) and Vincent Lepetit (Talence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: a hand module to, based on a demonstration of a human hand grasping an object, determine first and second vectors that are normal to and parallel to a palm of the human hand, respectively...