ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,311, issued on June 17, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Intelligent monitoring of entry points in multi-cell workspaces" was invented by Clara Vu (Cambridge, Mass.), Scott Denenberg (Newton, Mass.), Marek Wartenberg (Chelsea, Mass.), Ilya Kriveshko (Boxborough, Mass.), Antonio Fiol-Mahon (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alberto Moel (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computational strategies is used to reduce the complexity of handling detected point clusters appearing at a portal of a monitored workcell. If the other side of the portal is a second, adjacent workcell, the monitoring system for a fir...