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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. 10, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2019
Applicant:

Righthand Robotics, Inc., Somerville, MA (US);

Inventors:

Lael Odhner, Medford, MA (US);

Mark Keck, Woburn, MA (US);

Yuli Friedman, Belmont, MA (US);

Paul Novotny, Portsmouth, NH (US);

Matthew Browne, Somerville, MA (US);

Joel Brooks, Arlington, MA (US);

Assignee:

RightHand Robotics, Inc., Charlestown, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); G01G 11/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/84 (2006.01); G05B 19/4155 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1694 (2013.01); B25J 13/08 (2013.01); G01G 11/003 (2013.01); G01N 21/84 (2013.01); G05B 19/4155 (2013.01); B65G 1/137 (2013.01); G05B 2219/40269 (2013.01);
Abstract

Devices, systems, and methods for determining whether a container is empty in the context of robotic picking solutions. The system includes a plurality of sensors configured to gather container data regarding a container at a first location, wherein the container data includes at least two of weight data related to the container, depth data related to the container, and color sensor data related to the container, and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on a memory to provide a sensor fusion module configured to process the received container data to determine whether the container is empty.


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