ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,517, issued on April 29, was assigned to Armada Systems Inc. (San Francisco).

"Robotic control using natural language commands" was invented by Pragyana K. Mishra (Seattle), Alexiy Buynitsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sina Ehsani (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods to control a robotic device using natural language commands. A natural language command may be received by a system. The system may convert the command into low-level machine controls and logic for implementation by a robotic device to achieve a desired action. In some instances, an API module may include mapping data to associate high-lev...