ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,349, issued on March 18, was assigned to Robotics Plus Ltd. (Tauranga, New Zealand).
"Load scanning apparatus" was invented by Alistair John Scarfe (Tauranga, New Zealand) and Florian Thomas Roeske (Tauranga, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load scanning apparatus for taking physical measurements from a load. The load scanning apparatus has a scanning robot including a plurality of sensors arranged in an array spanning substantially across at least one load dimension in a first direction. The array of sensors moves together in a second direction, in a scanning plane. The plurality of sensors are configured to take image...