ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,304, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Object placement" was invented by Abhishek Sriraman (Union City, Calif.), Ajinkya Jain (San Jose, Calif.) and John Carter Wendelken (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing planning for robotic placement tasks. One of the methods includes determining an initial in-hand state for a grasped object. A show pose for the grasped object is determined, and the object is moved to the show pose. A refined in-hand state for the grasped ob...