US Patent Issued to KUKA Deutschland on June 3 for "Method for automatically scheduling the timing of brake tests, and associated robot" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,944, issued on June 3, was assigned to KUKA Deutschland GmbH (Germany).

"Method for automatically scheduling the timing of brake tests, and associated robot" was invented by Markus Finke (Konigsbrunn, Germany) and Thomas Neff (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a robot, and a robot controller for automatically scheduling the timing of a plurality of brake tests, that succeed one another at time intervals, at a plurality of brakes of a robot arm equipped with a plurality of joints and a plurality of links connecting the joints to one another and is connected to a robot controller which is designed and configured...