ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,778, issued on May 13, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Depth-sensing computer vision system" was invented by Scott Denenberg (Newton, Mass.), Lev Persits (Cambridge, Mass.), Clara Vu (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert Craig Randall (Auberndale, Mass.), Patrick Sobalvarro (Harvard, Mass.), Valentina Chamorro (Somerville, Mass.), Gene Malkin (Brookline, Mass.) and Alberto Moel (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, systems and methods for acquiring depth images utilize an architecture suited to safety-rated applications, and may include more than sensor (such as time-of-flight sensors) opera...