ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,626, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method of controlling manipulator of industrial robot, control system and industrial robot" was invented by Markus Enberg (Vasteras, Sweden), Hans Andersson (Vasteras, Sweden), Mikael Norrlof (Norrkoping, Sweden) and Jakob Westrom (Vasteras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a manipulator of an industrial robot having a plurality of joints, the method including providing a candidate trajectory for the manipulator; determining at least one position dependent load value representative of at least one position dependent load acting ...