ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,037, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Remote control system" was invented by Anirudh Reddy Kondapally (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control system, in which an operator remotely operates a robot having an end effector that is capable of gripping and manipulating an object, includes an acquisition part acquiring information on a state of the operator operating the robot; an end effector capable of performing multiple types of gripping methods; a gripping method table in which the gripping methods are stored; and a gripping method selector selecting the gripping method from the...