ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,227, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Simulated box placement for algorithm evaluation and refinement" was invented by Rohit Arka Pidaparthi (Mountain View, Calif.), William Arthur Clary (Palo Alto, Calif.), Neeraja Abhyankar (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jonathan Kuck (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ben Varkey Benjamin Pottayil (Foster City, Calif.), Kevin Jose Chavez (Redwood City, Calif.) and Shitij Kumar (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system is disclosed. The system includes a memory that stores for each of a plurality of items a set of attribute values. The system includes...