US Patent Issued to ProcessChamp on July 21 for "Learning software assisted fixtureless object pickup and placement system and method" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,465, issued on July 21, was assigned to ProcessChamp LLC (Columbus, Ohio).

"Learning software assisted fixtureless object pickup and placement system and method" was invented by George K. Ghanem (Columbus, Ohio) and Joseph A. Ghanem (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for learning software assisted, fixtureless object pickup and placement include a controller which derives measured target points from image(s) of a part in a work area received from a machine vision system, performs an iterative analysis to determine a best fit solution for moving the part adjacent to another part for forming the assembly...