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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.

Patent No.:

US 11905115 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2021

Robotic system for identifying items

Applicant:

Dexterity, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhouwen Sun, Redwood City, CA (US);

Robert Holmberg, Mountain View, CA (US);

Shitij Kumar, Redwood City, CA (US);

Jeesu Baek, San Mateo, CA (US);

Joseph Li, San Jose, CA (US);

Kishore Ranganath Ramakrishnan, Raleigh, NC (US);

Andrew Lovett, San Mateo, CA (US);

Cyril Nader, East Palo Alto, CA (US);

Farshid Farhat, Santa Clara, CA (US);

David Leo Tondreau, III, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Dexterity, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorney:

Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

Primary Examiner:

Patrick H Mackey

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/36 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B07C 5/34 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/1371 (2013.01); B07C 5/3412 (2013.01); B07C 5/362 (2013.01); B25J 9/0093 (2013.01); B25J 9/1664 (2013.01); G06K 7/10366 (2013.01); G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); B07C 2501/0063 (2013.01); B25J 9/1689 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for obtaining an identifier from an item is disclosed. The method includes autonomously operate a robotic structure to move an item along a predetermined path from a source location to a destination location, and autonomously operating the robotic structure to place the item at the destination location based at least in part on the plan. The item comprises one or more identifiers, and in response to a determination that at least one of the one or more identifiers was not obtained by one or more sensors, an active measure is performed to cause the one or more sensors to obtain the at least one identifier that was not obtained. The predetermined path corresponds to a path along which the item is moved from the source location to the destination location. The predetermined path is planned so that the item is moved within a threshold range of the one or more sensors while the item is moved along the predetermined path.

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