ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,963, issued on July 14, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Device and method for controlling a robot" was invented by Vladimir Tchuiev (Haifa, Israel), Yakov Miron (Haifa, Israel) and Dotan Di Castro (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robot device. The method includes acquiring an image(s) of in a workspace of the robot device; determining, by a neural network, object hierarchy information specifying stacking relations of the objects with respect to each other in the workspace of the robot device and confidence information for the object hierarchy information from the image(...