ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,121, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Integrity and safety checking for robots" was invented by Norbert Stoeffler (Graefelfing, Germany), Kay-Ulrich Scholl (Malsch, Germany), Fabian Oboril (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Yang Peng (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for efficiently checking the integrity of a robot system. The integrity-checking system may generate a predefined motion instruction for a robot, where the predefined motion instruction instructs the robot to perform a random movement at a test time. The random movement may be associated wi...