US Patent Issued to RIOS Intelligent Machines on July 28 for "Automated production work cell" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,101, issued on July 28, was assigned to RIOS Intelligent Machines Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Automated production work cell" was invented by Christopher Lalau Keraly (San Francisco), Christipher A. Paulson (Belmont, Calif.), Nicholas L. Choi (South San Francisco, Calif.), Laura L. Sullivan (Redwood City, Calif.), Leo Keselman (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Benedict (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kent A. Evans (Cupertino, Calif.) and Scott M. Dellenbaugh (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic work cell uses an object separating mechanism to disperse bulk objects into a 2D arrangement on a horizontal surface and uses a vision...