US Patent Issued to Duke University, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Aug. 19 for "Autonomous robot packaging of arbitrary objects" (Massachusetts, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,931, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.) and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Autonomous robot packaging of arbitrary objects" was invented by Fan Wang (Woburn, Mass.) and Kristoffer Karl Hauser (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to a system for packing objects in a container. The system may include a robotic device with a robotic arm, a plurality of object detection sensors, and a controller including at least one processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The non-transitory computer-readable medium may st...