ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,070, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for sensor registration based on floor alignment" was invented by Ilya A. Kriveshko (Boxborough, Mass.), Audrey Lewis (Somerville, Mass.), Iris Kutsyy (Somerville, Mass.), U. Murat Erdem (Melrose, Mass.) and Scott Denenberg (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for sensor registration for a workcell including a floor are disclosed. In some embodiments, a disclosed method comprises: disposing a plurality of three dimensional (3D) image sensors proximate to the workcell; acquiring, with the plurality of 3D image ...