US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Feb. 17 for "Shape completion and object position estimation for machine vision" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,266, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Shape completion and object position estimation for machine vision" was invented by Matthias Kayser (Karlsbad, Germany), Mengkejiergeli Ba (Shanghai) and Shishir Reddy Vutukur (Riegelsberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for machine vision includes generating, by an artificial neural network, a 6D position estimate of an object and a shape completion estimate of the object based on a partial point cloud. The partial point cloud including a set of 3D points representing the object. The artificial neural network traine...