ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,295, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Tapered hydraulic hose, methods of making, and applications thereof in robot systems" was invented by George E. G. Sterling (Vancouver, Canada), Connor Richard Shannon (Vancouver, Canada) and Douglas Bruce Jelstad (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot has a body, a hydraulic control system physically coupled to the body, and a hydraulically-actuated component physically coupled to the body. The hydraulically-actuated component is hydraulically coupled to the hydraulic control system by a hydraulic hose. The hydraulic ho...