ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,792, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Reinforcement learning of tactile grasp policies" was invented by Jonathan Tremblay (Redmond, Wash.), Visak Chadalavada Vijay Kumar (Seattle) and Tucker Hermans (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform a grasp of on object using an articulated robotic hand equipped with one or more tactile sensors. In at least one embodiment, a machine-learned model trained in simulation to grasp a cuboid using signals received from tactile sensors is applied to grasping objects of various shapes in a real-world environment...