ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,034, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Herts, Great Britain).
"Control device and method for a robot system" was invented by Graham Deacon (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Osemwaro Pedro (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is provided to reliably locate objects and calculate appropriate grasp points for each object to thereby effectively control a robot system. A grasp point calculation is based on, at least, properties of a surface of the object to be grasped by the robot system to more effectively calculate a grasp point for the surface of the object. An organised point cl...