US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for robot collision avoidance by full surface proximity detection" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,170, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for robot collision avoidance by full surface proximity detection" was invented by Xiaoran Fan (Secaucus, N.J.), Riley William Simmons-Edler (Princeton, N.J.), Daewon Lee (Princeton, N.J.), Lawrence Jackel (Holmdel, N.J.), Daniel Dongyuel Lee (Tenafly, N.J.) and Richard Howard (Highland Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for collision avoidance by surface proximity detection includes a plurality of piezoelectric elements disposed adjacent to a surface of an object, a memory storing instructions, and ...