ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,434, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Safe motion planning for machinery operation" was invented by Clara Vu (Cambridge, Mass.), Scott Denenberg (Newton, Mass.), Patrick Sobalvarro (Harvard, Mass.) and Alberto Moel (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of safely operating machinery in a workspace includes recording images of a portion of a workspace. The method also includes generating a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the portion of the workspace based on the recorded images, where the 3D representation includes one or more volumes that correspond to the portion of th...