US Patent Issued to Solystic on Oct. 21 for "Method for feeding parcels onto a sorting conveyor using a gripper robot with suction cups and an integrated camera" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,505, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Solystic (Bagneux, France).

"Method for feeding parcels onto a sorting conveyor using a gripper robot with suction cups and an integrated camera" was invented by Richard Blache (Lemps, France), Thierry Brisson (Mercurol Veaunes, France), Fabien Devise (Valence, France) and Jean-Marc Roux (Chateauneuf-sur-Isere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for feeding unsorted parcels (1) conveyed on a feed conveyor onto a sorting conveyor, wherein a first camera arranged above the feed conveyor forms a digital image of the unsorted parcels, a control-and-monitoring un...