US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park on April 14 for "Systems and methods for machine vision robotic processing" (Maryland, Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,806, issued on April 14, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Systems and methods for machine vision robotic processing" was invented by Yang Tao (North Potomac, Md.), Dongyi Wang (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Mohamed Amr Ali (Lanham, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and media for machine vision-guided robotic loading are provided. Such systems and methods can allow for more accurate object detection so as to allow for robotic picking or loading of an object from a pile or group of objects. In some embodiments, a camera is controlled to capture a background image of the object or ...