ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,100, issued on April 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Sensor optimization for robotic manipulations" was invented by Sergey M. Nikitin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for optimizing deployment of a camera scanning system in an environment for item identification are described. An example technique involves obtaining a first set of parameters of the camera scanning system and obtaining a second set of parameters of the environment. A third set of parameters of a predicted scan volume of the camera scanning system are determined based on the first set of parameters and the ...