ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,714, issued on March 25, was assigned to GrayMatter Robotics Inc. (Gardena, Calif.).

"System and method for accounting for compliance in a workpiece during autonomous processing" was invented by Avadhoot Ahire (Gardena, Calif.), Cheng Gong (Gardena, Calif.), Rishav Guha (Gardena, Calif.), Satyandra K. Gupta (Gardena, Calif.), Ariyan M. Kabir (Gardena, Calif.), Vihan Krishnan (Gardena, Calif.), Sagar Panchal (Gardena, Calif.) and Brual C. Shah (Gardena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: accessing a maximum deflection distance of a workpiece; defining a first workpiece region characterized by a ...