ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,679, issued on July 29, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device and method for controlling a robot to perform a task" was invented by Oren Spector (Modiin Maccabim Reut, Israel), Dotan Di Castro (Haifa, Israel) and Vladimir Tchuiev (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robot to perform a task. The method includes acquiring a target image data element comprising at least one target image from a perspective of an end-effector of the robot at a target position of the robot in which the robot has performed the task, acquiring an origin image data element comprising at least one o...