ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,876, issued on July 1, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"System and method for controlling a robot using constrained dynamic movement primitives" was invented by Devesh Jha (Cambridge, Mass.), Seiji Shaw (Providence, Ala.), Arvind Raghunathan (Medford, Ala.), Radu Ioan Corcodel (Quincy, Ala.), Diego Romeres (Boston, Ala.) and Daniel Nikovski (Brookline, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for controlling an operation of a robot to execute a task is provided. The controller comprises a memory configured to store a set of dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) associated with th...