ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,521, issued on June 3, was assigned to MUJIN INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for robotic object placement" was invented by Denys Kanunikov (Tokyo), Ziyan Zhou (Tokyo), Xutao Ye (Tokyo) and Rosen Nikolaev Diankov (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system including a processing circuit in communication with a robot and a camera having a field of view. The processing circuit obtains image information based on the objects in the field of view and a loading environment, the loading environment which includes loading areas, an object queue, and a buffer zone. The computing system is configured to use the obtained image infor...