ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,683, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to VisionNav Robotics USA Inc. (Acworth, Ga.).

"Aligning method, controller, and material handling equipment" was invented by Bingchuan Yang (Acworth, Ga.), Yujie Lu (Acworth, Ga.), Mu Fang (Acworth, Ga.), Siqi Yang (Acworth, Ga.), Yong'an Shi (Acworth, Ga.), Jiexiong Deng (Acworth, Ga.) and Jianbin Wang (Acworth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an aligning method, a controller, and material handling equipment. A major technical solution includes: acquiring target data of a first stacking object and a second stacking object by using a first sensor; extracting, from the target data...