ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,549, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"System and method for determining a grasping hand model" was invented by Francesc Moreno Noguer (Barcelona, Spain), Guillem Alenya Ribas (Barcelona, Spain), Enric Corona Puyane (Barcelona, Spain), Albert Pumarola Peris (Barcelona, Spain) and Gregory Rogez (Meylan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for determining a grasping hand model suitable for grasping an object by receiving an image including at least one object; obtaining an object model estimating a pose and shape of the object from the image of the object; selecting a grasp class from a ...