ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,552, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Multi-purpose robots and computer program products, and methods for operating the same" was invented by Suzanne Gildert (Vancouver, Canada), Olivia Norton (North Vancouver, Canada) and Geordie Rose (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robots, methods, and computer program products for training and operating (semi-) autonomous robots to complete multiple different work objectives are described. A robot accesses a library of reusable work primitives from a catalog of libraries of reusable work primitives, each reusable work pri...