US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Sept. 2 for "Methodology for safe remote humanoid takeover for multi-user telexistence with minimal hardware user requirements" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,605, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Methodology for safe remote humanoid takeover for multi-user telexistence with minimal hardware user requirements" was invented by Himanshu Bindal (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Satoshi Nakamura (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing telexistence, which may include receiving, by a processor, a request to control a humanoid from a remote user; determining, by the processor, acceptance of the request by a host; for the request being determined as accepted, verifying, by the processor, receipt of a set of initiating signals; for the set of initiat...