US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University on Sept. 16 for "Robotic meal-assembly systems and robotic methods for real-time object pose estimation of high-resemblance random food items" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,281, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Robotic meal-assembly systems and robotic methods for real-time object pose estimation of high-resemblance random food items" was invented by Yee Seng Teoh (Singapore), Yadan Zeng (Singapore), Boon Heng Elvin Toh (Singapore), Choon Yue Wong (Singapore), I-Ming Chen (Singapore) and Guoniu Zhu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and computer readable media are provided for automatic kitting of items. The system for automatic kitting of items includes a robotic device, a first imaging device, a computing device and a controlle...