ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,128, issued on July 15, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Modular robot control architecture" was invented by Matthew Pleli (Castro Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot is disclosed. The robot includes at least one robot component and a controller. The controller is configured to control the at least one robot component based at least on: (1) an Input/Output (I/O) map comprising a plurality of blocks that are each associated with predefined inputs and outputs; and (2) an application associated with at least one block of the plurality of blocks, the application executes the associated predefine...