ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,482, issued on May 13, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System for controlling robot finger and method for the same" was invented by Muhammad Zahak Jamal (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dong Jin Hyun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dong Hyun Lee (Uiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for controlling a robot finger may include a processor to determine a mapping function using a kernel matrix means of a multichannel electromyographic (EMG) signal to train a learning algorithm using at least one EMG signal training sample), and a storage to store ...