ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,607, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Robot programming" was invented by Jingyi Fang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Charles Marc Gobeil (Newark, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating control instructions for operating a robot. One of the methods includes generating an interactive user interface that illustrates an object to be manipulated by a robot by using an end effector; receiving, within the user interface, first user input data indicating a workcell location; computing a surfac...