ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,587, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bright Machines Inc. (San Francisco).
"Method and apparatus for vision-based tool localization" was invented by Barrett Clark (Seattle), Oytun Akman (Oakland, Calif.), Matthew Brown (Seattle), Ronald Poelman (Wassenaar, Netherlands), Brian Philip Mathews (Burlingame, Calif.), Emmanuel Gallo (Oakland, Calif.) and Ali Shafiekhani (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vision-based tool localization (VTL) in a robotic assembly system including one or more calibrated cameras, the method comprising capturing a plurality of images of the tool contact area from a plurality of differe...