ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,629, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Embodied Intelligence Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Training artificial networks for robotic picking" was invented by Yan Duan (Berkeley, Calif.), Haoran Tang (Emeryville, Calif.), Yide Shentu (Berkeley, Calif.), Nikhil Mishra (Irvine, Calif.) and Xi Chen (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to robotic devices and artificial intelligence. More specifically, some embodiments relate to an artificial neural network training method that does not require extensive training data or time expenditure. The few-shot training model d...