ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,230, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for controlling a robotic device" was invented by Johannes Christian Mueller (Stuttgart, Germany), Andreas Schmidt (Stuttgart, Germany) and Koba Natroshvili (Waldbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robotic device. The method includes: training a control strategy for the robotic device based on a plurality of training control situations and, for each of a plurality of control time points, ascertaining information about an environment of the robotic device for the control time point; ascertaining a first consiste...