ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,641, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Salem, Ore.).

"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 th...