ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,131, issued on June 10, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Constrained manipulation of objects" was invented by Navid Aghasadeghi (Boston), Alfred Anthony Rizzi (Waltham, Mass.), Gina Fay (Lexington, Mass.) and Robert Eugene Paolini (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method executed by data processing hardware of a robot causes the data processing hardware to perform operations. The robot includes an articulated arm having an end effector engaged with a constrained object. The operations include receiving a measured task parameter set for the end effector. The measured task pa...