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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2019
Applicant:

Abb Schweiz Ag, Baden, CH;

Inventors:

Gregory A. Cole, West Hanford, CT (US);

Thomas A. Fuhlbrigge, Ellington, CT (US);

Assignee:

ABB Schweiz AG, Baden, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L 5/171 (2020.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L 5/171 (2020.01); B25J 9/1694 (2013.01); G01N 35/0099 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of package identification are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a method for package identification comprising performing a set of initial inspection operations on a package; determining a portion of a plurality of possible packages based on the set of initial inspection operations and a data structure including initial inspection characteristics for the plurality of possible packages; performing a set of package movement inspection operations by moving the package using a robot; determining a set of movement characteristics based on the package movement inspection operations; and identifying which one of the portion of the plurality of possible packages corresponds to the package using the set of movement characteristics.


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