ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,507, issued on April 22, was assigned to Franka Emika GmbH (Munich).

"Generating a control program for a robot manipulator" was invented by Andreas Spenninger (Karlsfeld, Germany) and Jose Ramon Medina Hernandez (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a control program, wherein the method includes: executing an application by the first robot manipulator, at the same time, determining trajectory data and/or wrench data, determining robot commands from a stored time series, the robot commands being principal elements of the control program for the robot manipulator without relation to design conditions of a first r...