US Patent Issued to BOSTON DYNAMICS on March 4 for "Dynamic mass estimation methods for an integrated mobile manipulator robot" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,105, issued on March 4, was assigned to BOSTON DYNAMICS INC. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Dynamic mass estimation methods for an integrated mobile manipulator robot" was invented by Shervin Talebi (Wayland, Mass.), Neil Neville (Waltham, Mass.) and Kevin Blankespoor (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating one or more mass characteristics of a payload manipulated by a robot includes moving the payload using the robot, determining one or more accelerations of the payload while the payload is in motion, sensing, using one or more sensors of the robot, a wrench applied to the payload while the payload is in motion, ...