ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,023, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Bonn, Germany).

"Method for controlling a robot, and system" was invented by Neal Lii (Bonn, Germany), Aaron Pereira (Bonn, Germany), Benedikt Pleintinger (Bonn, Germany) and Annika Schmidt (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robot, in which a force and/or movement of a user is transferred to at least one actuated segment of the robot and is detected by the robot in order to control a solid in a fluid, wherein the force and/or movement of the user is transferred to the solid, wherein the actuated segment genera...