US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Nov. 18 for "Policy-restricted execution of a robot program with movement instructions" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,625, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Policy-restricted execution of a robot program with movement instructions" was invented by Roger Mellander (Vasteras, Sweden) and Roger Dahlgren (Vasteras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a robot manipulator on the basis of a program containing a plurality of movement instructions. In the method, identification information related to a robot installation is obtained, and it is determined, on the basis of the identification information, whether any of the movement instructions relates to a location of the robot manipulator which...