ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,847, issued on July 8, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for controlling a robot for manipulating, in particular picking up, an object" was invented by Andras Gabor Kupcsik (Herrenberg, Germany), Christian Graf (Munich), Miroslav Gabriel (Munich) and Philipp Christian Schillinger (Renningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robot for manipulating, in particular picking up, an object. The method includes: creating an image which depicts the object; generating a manipulation-quality image from the image, in which, for each pixel which represents a point on the surface of the...