ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,064, issued on April 22, was assigned to MUJIN INC. (Tokyo).

"Shape information generation apparatus, control apparatus, loading/unloading apparatus, logistics system, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and control method" was invented by Rosen Diankov (Tokyo), Xutao Ye (Tokyo) and Ziyan Zhou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a first information acquiring section that acquires three-dimensional information of a first region of surfaces of a plurality of objects, the information being obtained by imaging or scanning the plurality of objects from a first location; a second information acquiring sec...