ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,894, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Generating references for robot-carried objects and related technology" was invented by Yaadhav Raaj (Beaverton, Ore.) and Juan Fernando Medrano Yax (Guatemala, Guatemala).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology includes retrieving an object from a starting location by grasping the object between two end effectors of a mobile robot. The method further includes generating, by data-processing hardware operably associated with the mobile robot, an object reference corresponding to a pose of the...