US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for deformable object manipulation using air" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,190, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (New York).

"Systems and methods for deformable object manipulation using air" was invented by Zhenjia Xu (New York), Cheng Chi (New York), Benjamin Burchfiel (Somerville, Mass.), Eric Cousineau (Cambridge, Mass.), Siyuan Feng (Somerville, Mass.) and Shuran Song (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for manipulating deformable objects using air are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for manipulating a deformable object, the system includes a first robot arm ...