ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,303, issued on June 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Online augmentation of learned grasping" was invented by Ethan K. Gordon (Seattle) and Rana Soltani Zarrin (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for online augmentation for learned grasping are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes identifying an action from a discrete action space. The method includes identifying a second set of grasps of the agent utilizing a transition model based on the action and at least one contact parameter. The at least one contact parameter defines allowed states of contact for th...