US Patent Issued to Aescape on Oct. 14 for "Method and system for autonomous object manipulation" (New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,974, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Aescape Inc. (New York).

"Method and system for autonomous object manipulation" was invented by David N. Walsh (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Eric A. Litman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Charles Paul Pace (Manchester Center, Vt.) and Matthew DiCicco (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and apparatus for a robot system that manipulates the surface of an object effect programmed manipulation goals such as reaching specific locations on the surface of the object, displacing the surface of the object, applying a predetermined force and torque to the surface of the object, dynamically changing th...