ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,970, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Arm and body coordination" was invented by Stephen George Berard (Waltham, Mass.), Andrew James Barry (Cambridge, Mass.), Benjamin John Swilling (Winchester, Mass.) and Alfred Anthony Rizzi (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, when executed by data processing hardware of a robot having an articulated arm and a base, causes data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include determining a first location of a workspace of the articulated arm associated with a current base configuration of the bas...