ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,424, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Method and apparatus for online task planning and robot motion control" was invented by Akihiro Suzumura (San Ramon, Calif.), Gaurav Misra (San Ramon, Calif.), Andres Rodriguez Campo (San Ramon, Calif.), Kautilya Chenna (San Francisco), Sean Bailey (San Ramon, Calif.) and John Drinkard (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques embody advantageous approaches to online task and motion planning for robots, based on the decomposition of robot tasks into subtasks having attached attributes that, among other things, indicate whether dynamic tr...