ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,931, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling robotic manipulators" was invented by Abhisek Konar (Montreal), Oliver Limoyo (Mississauaga, Canada), Francois Hogan (St. Jean Sur Richelieu, Canada), Gregory Lewis Dudek (Westmount, Canada) and Trevor Ablett (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robot including a manipulator is provided. The method may include: acquiring an image of a scene including a target object; inputting the image into a control policy model to obtain an object placement pose of the manipulator, as an ...