ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,164, issued on April 8, was assigned to MUJIN INC. (Tokyo).

"Method and computing system for performing robot motion planning and repository detection" was invented by Xutao Ye (Tokyo), Hamdi Sahloul (Tokyo), Puttichai Lertkultanon (Tokyo) and Rosen Nikolaev Diankov (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computing system for transferring objects between a source repository and a destination repository is provided. The computing system is configured to operate by a combination of pre-planned and image base trajectories to improve speed and reliability of object transfer. The computing system is configured to capture image ...