US Patent Issued to Symbotic on Oct. 21 for "Sensor for safe detection of intrusions in a 3D volume" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,396, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Sensor for safe detection of intrusions in a 3D volume" was invented by Clara Vu (Cambridge, Mass.), Alberto Moel (Cambridge, Mass.), Scott Denenberg (Newton, Mass.), Marek Wartenberg (Chelsea, Mass.) and Eric Cobane (North Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, systems and methods for safely operating machinery such as industrial robots signal intrusions into and/or above computationally defined safeguarded volumes in a workspace during sensor monitoring of the workspace. Various related actions may be taken in response thereto,...