ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,901, issued on May 27, was assigned to MUJIN Inc. (Tokyo).

"Robotic system with automated object detection mechanism and methods of operating the same" was invented by Rosen Nikolaev Diankov (Tokyo), Russell Islam (Tokyo) and Xutao Ye (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating a robotic system to register unrecognized objects is disclosed. The robotic system may use first image data representative of an unrecognized object to derive an initial minimum viable region (MVR). The robotic system may analyze second image data representative of the unrecognized object to detect a condition representative of an a...