US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 13 for "Collision detection for object rearrangement using a 3D scene representation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,800, issued on May 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Collision detection for object rearrangement using a 3D scene representation" was invented by Adithyavairavan Murali (Seattle), Arsalan Mousavian (Seattle), Clemens Eppner (Seattle), Adam Fishman (Seattle) and Dieter Fox (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One common robotic task is the rearrangement of physical objects situated in an environment. This typically involves a robot manipulator picking up a target object and placing the target object in some target location, such as a shelf, cabinet or cubby, and requires the skills of picking, placing and ge...