ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,131, issued on April 15.
"Control system for and method of operating joints" was invented by Jonathan Tippett (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A servomechanism and method of operating same are provider. The servomechanism may be used in walking vehicles or construction vehicles. An operator provides a force to an input joint which controls a powered joint of the vehicle. Force is detected in a feedback system between the powered joint and input joint to control the power to an actuator driving the powered joint."
The patent was filed on May 17, 2018, under Application No. 16/614,377.
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