ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,479, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to inVia Robotics Inc. (Westlake Village, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for adapting robotic retrieval to increasingly dense container arrangements" was invented by Joseph Traverso (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Randolph Charles Voorhies (Newbury Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robotic retrieval system that adapts robot operations to different densities with which containers are stored. The system determines a position of a particular container in a slot. The system selects a first side of the slot from which to gain access to the particular container based on the particular c...