US Patent Issued to MUJIN on July 15 for "Method and computing system for performing grip region detection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,152, issued on July 15, was assigned to MUJIN INC. (Tokyo).

"Method and computing system for performing grip region detection" was invented by Jose Jeronimo Moreira Rodrigues (Tokyo), Rosen Nikolaev Diankov (Tokyo), Jinze Yu (Tokyo), Ahmed Abouelela (Tokyo) and Yoshiki Kanemoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing system is presented. The method may include the computing system receiving image information that represents an object surface associated with a flexible object, and identifying, as a grip region, a surface region of the object surface that satisfies a defined smoothness condition and has ...