ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,384, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and control system for controlling movement trajectories of a robot" was invented by Stefan Westberg (Vasteras, Sweden) and Giacomo Spampinato (Vasteras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling movement trajectories of a robot, the method including predicting, in an offline mode, values of at least one parameter related to the execution of alternative movement trajectories between a first position of the robot and a second position of the robot; selecting, in the offline mode, a movement trajectory based on the predicted values o...