ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,927, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method and control unit for controlling motion of an object towards a target pose, and robot" was invented by Dirk Ruiken (Offenbach, Germany) and Simon Manschitz (Offenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for controlling motion of an object towards a target pose. The method includes determining a current state of the object; randomizing multiple configurations of the object with regard to the current state of the object; predicting for each configuration of the multiple configurations of the object a constraint cost with...