ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,122, issued on March 4, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Palletizing boxes" was invented by Neil Neville (Waltham, Mass.), Kevin Blankespoor (Arlington, Mass.), Jennifer Barry (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alexander Douglas Perkins (Arlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for palletizing by a robot includes positioning an object at an initial position adjacent to a target object location, tilting the object at an angle relative to a ground plane, shifting the object in a first direction from the initial position toward a first alignment position, shifting the object in a second direction from the firs...