US Patent Issued to Siemens on Sept. 30 for "Task-oriented 3D reconstruction for autonomous robotic operations" (California, New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,674, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Task-oriented 3D reconstruction for autonomous robotic operations" was invented by Chengtao Wen (Redwood City, Calif.), Heiko Claussen (Wayland, Mass.), Xiaowen Yu (Union City, Calif.), Eugen Solowjow (Berkeley, Calif.), Richard Gary McDaniel (Hightstown, N.J.), Swen Elpelt (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Juan L. Aparicio Ojea (Moraga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous operations, such as robotic grasping and manipulation, in unknown or dynamic environments present various technical challenges. For example, three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a given object of...