ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,412, issued on May 6, was assigned to CFT S.P.A. (Parma, Italy).
"System and method for emptying a box" was invented by Roberto Catelli (Parma, Italy), Alessio Lazzari (Viadana, Italy) and Gianluca Scaramuzza (Noceto, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emptying system for emptying a box of food products comprising: -a box overturning robot (2) comprising gripping means (20); -acquisition means (3) for acquiring at least one image of at least one part of the box; -a control unit (4) that moves said gripping means (20) in function of the information arising from said acquisition means (3) for grasping the box by said gripping mean...