ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,581, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Interpreting discrete tasks from complex instructions for robotic systems and applications" was invented by Christopher Jason Paxton (Pittsburgh), Shagan Sah (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ratin Kumar (Cupertino, Calif.) and Dieter Fox (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches provide for performance of a complex (e.g., compound) task that may involve multiple discrete tasks not obvious from an instruction to perform the complex task. A set of conditions for an environment can be determined using captured image data, and the instruction analyzed to determine ...