US Patent Issued to Nvidia on Sept. 2 for "Simulating physical interactions for automated systems" (Washington, Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,589, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Simulating physical interactions for automated systems" was invented by Yu-Wei Chao (Redmond, Wash.), Yu Xiang (Plano, Texas), Wei Yang (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Dieter Fox (Seattle), Chris Paxton (Pittsburgh), Balakumar Sundaralingam (Seattle) and Maya Cakmak (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may simulate human motion for human-robot interactions, such as may involve a handover of an object. Motion capture can be performed for a hand grasping and moving an object to a location and orientation appropriate for a handover, without a need for a ...