ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,525, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Mujin Inc. (Tokyo).

"Robotic system with piece-loss management mechanism" was invented by Rosen Nikolaev Diankov (Tokyo), Huan Liu (Tokyo) and Denys Kanunikov (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a robotic system that includes calculating a base motion plan, wherein the base motion plan includes a sequence of commands or settings, or a combination thereof, that operates a robotic arm and a gripper to transfer a target object from a start location to a task location; receiving a contact measure while executing the base motion plan, wherein the contact measure represents a...