ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,014, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES (Seattle).
"Robot firmware and hardware performance qualification tool" was invented by Nicholas A. Smith (Medford, Mass.), Oliver Purwin (Andover, Mass.) and Charles Linton (Southborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods for qualification of robotic firmware are described. In various examples, first firmware or first hardware may be deployed on a first set of robots and second firmware or second hardware may be deployed on a second set of robots. The first firmware may generate first log data and the second firmware may generate se...