US Patent Issued to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University on Jan. 20 for "Method for planning a movement path for a robotic arm" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,187, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for planning a movement path for a robotic arm" was invented by Kai-Tai Song (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Shih-Wei Chiu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for planning a movement path for a non-fixed end of a robotic arm. A mixed reality (MR) device is used to capture hand images of a user to obtain multiple target coordinate sets in an MR coordinate system. A computer device is used to convert the target coordinate sets into multiple path coordinate sets in a robot base coordinate system, and c...