ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,290, issued on June 17.
"Operator-friendly interface for collaborative robots" was invented by Mathieu Belanger-Barrette (St-Ferreol-les-neiges, Canada), Sylvain Gagne (Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Canada), Samuel Fradette (Beaumont, Canada), Renaud Sanfacon (Quebec, Canada), Mathieu Ouellet (Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Canada), Michael Vallee (Levis, Canada) and Etienne Samson (Quebec, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic module or interface allows a cobot to non-intrusively operate a piece machinery, to monitor an optical output of the machinery and/or to monitor an operator's action while ensuring that the o...