US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for grasping and placing multiple objects with a robotic gripper" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,030, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for grasping and placing multiple objects with a robotic gripper" was invented by Samuel Shaw (Somerville, Mass.), Colin Snow (Sharon, Mass.), Scott Gilroy (Waltham, Mass.), Logan Tutt (Cambridge, Mass.), Kyle Edelberg (Claremont, Calif.) and Neil Neville (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of grasping and/or placing multiple objects by a gripper of a mobile robot. The multi-grasp method includes determining one or more candidate groups of objects to grasp by the suction-based gripper of the mobile robot, each of th...