ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,420, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Predicting grasp outcomes" was invented by Isabella Huang (Berkeley, Calif.), Yashraj Narang (Seattle), Tucker Ryer Hermans (Salt Lake City), Fabio Tozeto Ramos (Seattle), Ankur Handa (Seattle), Miles Andrew Macklin (Auckland, New Zealand) and Dieter Fox (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate a predicted outcome of an object resulting from a robotic component applying a force. In at least one embodiment, a predicted outcome of an object resulting from a robotic component applying a force is generated based ...