ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,094, issued on July 22, was assigned to FIGURE AI INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Head and neck assembly for a humanoid robot" was invented by David McCall (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sydney Hardy (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Katarina Rodak (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A humanoid robot includes an upper region includes a head and neck assembly having a neck portion and a head portion coupled to the neck portion. Said head portion includes: a frontal shell having a rear edge, a rear shell having a frontal edge, and an illumination assembly. The illumination assembly is configured to illuminate a region that: (i) extends between a r...