ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,067, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-mode robot programming" was invented by Jingyi Fang (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Christopher Degen (San Francisco), David Andrew Schmidt (Munich) and Jason Harold Tucker (San Francisco).

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 robot programming. One of the methods comprises generating an interactive user interface that includes an illustration of a virtual robot corresponding to a physical robot; receiving first user input data specifying a first targ...