US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 4 for "Image-based guidance for robotic wire pickup" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,734, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Image-based guidance for robotic wire pickup" was invented by Heiko Hoffman (Simi Valley, Calif.), Jeffrey A. McCaskey (Everett, Wash.), Lars E. Blacken (Bothell, Wash.), Bradley J. Mitchell (Snohomish, Wash.) and Damien O. Martin (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated wire pickup using image-based robot guidance. The machine vision-based system includes: a robot arm; a tool head coupled to the distal end of the robot arm and including a wire gripper motor; a wire gripper movably coupled to the tool head and operatively c...