ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,871, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Compiling robot behavior trees" was invented by Timothy Robert Kelch (San Jose, Calif.) and Tim Niemueller (Gauting, Germany).

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 translating behavior trees into a target programming language. One of the methods includes receiving a request to translate a behavior tree representing a robotic process into source code of a target language of a target execution system, wherein the behavior tree has links representing parent...