ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,983, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Anyware Robotics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"Learning-embedded motion planning" was invented by Yongxiang Fan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Te Tang (Fremont, Calif.) and Yiyang Zhou (Hayward, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of sequential handling of a plurality of freight units by an end effector of a robotic system comprises training a neural network operable to bias a plurality of samples of a configuration space of the end effector. Deployment of the trained neural network involves sensing an arrangement of freight units in a scene based on an image of the scene from a sensor. A freight uni...