ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,660, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ABB Schweiz (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and system for training a robot" was invented by Sandro Schoenborn (Basel, Switzerland), Andrei Dan (Otelfingen, Switzerland), Robert Rene Maria Birke (Morgex, Italy), Philipp Sommer (Zurich, Switzerland) and Thomas Locher (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for training a robot to recognize objects in the workspace of the robot. Objects in the workspace are identified by the user, and the robot determines candidate objects. Feedback may be used in order for the user to confirm whether the candidate obj...