ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,307, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Robot with linear 7th axis" was invented by Andrew Lovett (Burlingame, Calif.), Zhouwen Sun (San Mateo, Calif.), Matthew Rodolfo Molina (San Francisco), Robert Holmberg (Mountain View, Calif.) and Derek Pan (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a robotic control system, and a method and a computer system for controlling a robot. The robotic control system includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The memory is configured to store configured to store a model of a robot having a plurali...