ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,423, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).
"System for motion control of one or more joints" was invented by Babak Kianmajd (Hayward, Calif.), James Ballantyne (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Michael Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Jong Jin Park (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nicholas Chuanji Liao (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Harry S. Cheng (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile device (AMD) has one or more joints that move. A "choreo" comprises instructions that specify a particular set of motions. A constrained optimization algorithm determines a first time at which operation of the joint may be...