ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,171, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PTT EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION PUBLIC COMPANY Ltd. (Bangkok).

"Method and system for controlling motion of a multi-segmented walking robot" was invented by Poramate Manoonpong (Rayong, Thailand), Jettanan Homchanthanakul (Rayong, Thailand), Binggwong Leung (Rayong, Thailand), Thirawat Chuthong (Rayong, Thailand) and Suppachai Pewkliang (Bangkok).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling motion of a multi-segmented walking robot comprising the steps of: (A) generating walking pattern signals using a central pattern generator (CPG); (B) sending the generated walking pattern signals t...