ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,345, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to VisionNav Robotics USA Inc. (Acworth, Ga.).
"Method for determining alignment state, controller, and material handling equipment" was invented by Siqi Yang (Acworth, Ga.) and Yujie Lu (Acworth, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an alignment state includes: acquiring, by using a sensor, target images of a first stacking object and a second stacking object; acquiring, from the target images, a first target image region of the first stacking object and a second target image region of the second stacking object; and determining a pixel difference between the first target i...