ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,346, issued on April 7, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for information-assisted sensor registration" was invented by Clara Vu (Cambridge, Mass.), Audrey Lewis (Somerville, Mass.), Antonio Fiol-Mahon (Cambridge, Mass.), U. Murat Erdem (Melrose, Mass.), Patrick J. Foy (Reading, Mass.), Ilya A. Kriveshko (Boxborough, Mass.), Scott Denenberg (Newton, Mass.) and Alberto Moel (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image sensors distributed about a workcell including industrial machinery are registered using a registration object and an information tag associated therewith. The tag contains ...