ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,058, issued on May 13, was assigned to SYMBOTIC CANADA ULC (Canada).
"Vision-assisted robotized depalletizer" was invented by Sylvain-Paul Morency (Montreal), Marc Ducharme (Montreal), Robert Jodoin (Montreal), Philippe Hakier (Montreal), Christian Simon (Montreal) and Jean-Francois Forget (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision-assisted robotized depalletizer receives at a pallet station a pallet loaded with products and outputs on a conveyor unitized products aligned in a desired orientation. Such depalletizers include a vision system having one or more image acquisition sensors that are positioned relative to the pallet ...