US Patent Issued to MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates on July 29 for "Systems and methods for designing, testing, and validating a robotic system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,702, issued on July 29, was assigned to MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Inc. (Brampton, Canada).

"Systems and methods for designing, testing, and validating a robotic system" was invented by Michael Hiltz (Brampton, Canada), Edoardo Serpelloni (Brampton, Canada), Robert Lucas (Brampton, Canada) and Bart Verzijlenberg (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for designing, testing, and validating a robotic system for space are provided. A system includes: a robotic manipulator; a dynamic system emulator configured to simulate a motion behaviour response of a first space robotic system based on forces and...