ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,636, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Segmenting multi-fingered soft gripper portion based on optical flow" was invented by David Gonzalez Aguirre (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system, including: a robot having an arm with a multi-fingered soft gripper that is formed of a compliant material; an image sensor fixedly mounted on the arm to move with the multi-fingered soft gripper, and operable to capture image data of the multi-fingered soft gripper composed of a compliant material; and processor circuitry operable to generate a model of a state of the multi-fingered soft...