ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,587, issued on April 15, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Control device and method for item verification" was invented by Graham Deacon (Hatfield, Great Britain), Osemwaro Jeremiah Pedro (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Christos Makris (Harfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is provided to more quickly and efficiently verify which item has been grasped by a robot system whilst also providing a solution which is scalable. Verification of the item which has been grasped is achieved by measuring a dynamics property of the item. A control unit for operation with a robot syste...