ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,536, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Imitation robot control stack models" was invented by Paul Bechard (Ogdensburg, N.Y.), Matthew Bennice (San Jose, Calif.), Josephine Simon (San Francisco) and Jiayi Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are provided for training an imitation robot control stack model to approximate the behavior of a robot control stack. In various implementations one or more training examples for training an imitation robot control stack model may be received. The training examples may comprise: input data to a robot control stack, wherein the i...