ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,143, issued on Nov. 11, 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 Bingchuan Yang (Acworth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method for determining an alignment state, a controller, and material handling equipment. A main technical solution includes: acquiring, by using a sensor, a target point cloud of a first stacking object and a target point cloud of a second stacking object; determining, based on the target point cloud of the first stacking object, a first pseudo im...