US Patent Issued to DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT on April 22 for "Method and computer program product for controlling a robot" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,505, issued on April 22, was assigned to DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. (Bonn, Germany).

"Method and computer program product for controlling a robot" was invented by Johannes Englsberger (Wessling, Germany), Gianluca Garofalo (Wessling, Germany) and George Adrian Mesesan (Wessling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a kinematically redundant robot (100) in order to fulfill multiple tasks. At least one passivity-based first controller module (102) is used, at least one task target description and at least one associated task mapping are computed for the at least one first controller module ...