US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on Dec. 9 for "Method and system for point cloud based grasp planning framework" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,978, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for point cloud based grasp planning framework" was invented by Vipul Ashok Sanap (Pune, India), Aniruddha Singhal (New Delhi), Laxmidhar Behera (New Delhi) and Rajesh Sinha (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fully automated and reliable picking of a diverse range of unseen objects in clutter is a challenging problem. The present disclosure provides an optimum grasp pose selection to pick an object from a bin. Initially, the system receives an input image pertaining to a surface. Further, a plurality of sampled grasp p...