ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,948, issued on March 3, was assigned to RESEARCH CENTER OF INTELLIGENT EQUIPMENT, BAAFS (Beijing).

"Autonomous operation decision-making method of picking manipulator" was invented by Qingchun Feng (Beijing), Yajun Li (Beijing), Yifan Zhang (Beijing) and Chuanlang Peng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the technical field of manipulators and provides an autonomous operation decision-making method of a picking manipulator. The autonomous operation decision-making method of a picking manipulator includes: acquiring sample images of fruits and branches and constructing a plurality of virtual scen...