US Patent Issued to Franka Emika on Feb. 25 for "System for performing an input on a robotic manipulator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,535, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Franka Emika GmbH (Munich).

"System for performing an input on a robotic manipulator" was invented by Andreas Spenninger (Karlsfeld, Germany), Saskia Golz (Munich) and Sven Parusel (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing an input on a robotic manipulator, wherein the system includes: a robotic manipulator having a plurality of links connected to one another by articulations and having actuators; a sensor unit configured to record an input variable, applied by a user by manually guiding the robotic manipulator, on the robotic manipulator, wherein the input variable is a ki...