ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,546, issued on May 27, was assigned to FASTBRICK IP PTY LTD (High Wycombe, Australia).

"Active damping system" was invented by Mark Joseph Pivac (Lesmurdie, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system for performing interactions within a physical environment, the system including: (a) a robot base; (b) a robot base actuator that moves the robot base relative to the environment; (c) a robot arm mounted to the robot base, the robot arm including an end effector mounted thereon; (d) a tracking system that measures at least one of (i) a robot base position indicative of a position of the robot base r...