US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Aug. 12 for "Generalized coordinate surrogates for integrated estimation and control" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,038, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Generalized coordinate surrogates for integrated estimation and control" was invented by Gabriel Nelson (Waltham, Mass.) and Benjamin Stephens (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic device includes a control system. The control system receives a first measurement indicative of a first distance between a center of mass of the machine and a first position in which a first leg of the machine last made initial contact with a surface. The control system also receives a second measurement indicative of a second distance between the center o...