ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,351, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for picking up an object by means of a robotic device" was invented by Alexander Kuss (Schoenaich, Germany), Anh Vien Ngo (Nehren, Germany), Miroslav Gabriel (Munich), Philipp Christian Schillinger (Renningen, Germany) and Zohar Feldman (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for picking up an object by means of a robotic device. The method includes obtaining at least one depth image of the object; determining, for each of a plurality of points of the object, the value of a measure of the scattering of surface normal vectors in an a...