ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,185, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).
"Probe guiding" was invented by David I Palmer (Nottingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A techniques for improved guiding of hyper-redundant manipulator probes into a constrained space which make use of the known characteristics of the space into which the probe is being inserted to increase the efficiency of the computation of the path of the probe. Embodiments of the invention achieve this through an optimisation function which determined a new orientation which minimises the deviation between each of: a) the point on the probe where the probe starts...