ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,418, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Shandong Tianfeng Zhiyuan Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. (Jinan, China).

"Posture optimization and following control method and system for robot used in freeform surface repair" was invented by Chengrui Zhang (Jinan, China) and Yisheng Yin (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot posture optimization and follow-up control method and system for freeform surface repair. The system includes a worn surface reverse modeling module, a worn surface initial normal vector calculation module, an initial machining trajectory and normal vector extraction module, a normal vector r...