US Patent Issued to Symbotic on June 2 for "Workplace monitoring and semantic entity identification for safe machine operation" (Massachusetts, Maine, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,237, issued on June 2, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Workplace monitoring and semantic entity identification for safe machine operation" was invented by Clara Vu (Cambridge, Mass.), Scott Denenberg (Newton, Mass.), Marek Wartenberg (Westbrook, Maine), Paul Jakob Schroeder (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Ilya A. Kriveshko (Boxborough, Mass.) and Alberto Moel (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes sensors, memory, and a processor. The sensors are configured to capture images of a workspace, and the memory is configured to store the images and a model of machinery located within the workspace. The pr...