ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,966, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Robot Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method for controlling biped robot, biped robot, and readable storage medium" was invented by Yan Xie (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a biped robot includes: acquiring a support phase of the biped robot in a current state; acquiring a current forward speed and a current lateral speed of a center of mass of the biped robot at an end of the support phase; acquiring a torque vector of an ankle joint of a support leg of the biped robot according to the current forward speed and the current lateral speed; acquiring...