ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,408, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Bright Machines Inc. (San Francisco).

"Human machine interface recipe building system for a robotic manufacturing system" was invented by Lira Nikolovska (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Tatjana Dzambazova (Mill Valley, Calif.), Benyamin Zinshtein (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Nimrod Fridlin (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ryan Werth (San Francisco), Sagi Shoffer (Beit Arye, Israel), Yaron Bental (Yakum, Israel), Yaniv Knany (Yakum, Israel), Shay Galperin (Yakum, Israel), Sharon Goldstein (Yakum, Israel) and Calanit Ozeri (Yakum, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recipe builder system, enabling control recipes f...