ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,489, issued on May 13, was assigned to Franka Emika GmbH (Munich).
"Control of a robot manipulator upon contact with a person" was invented by Andreas Spenninger (Karlsfeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a robot manipulator, the method including: providing a database containing body zones of a person, wherein each of the body zones is assigned a respective maximum permissible value of contact pressure value, determining a current or a future contact event of the robot manipulator involving the person, and determining a body zone of the person that is contacted, determining a reference position fixed r...