ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,981, issued on July 29, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Method and system for rhythmic motion control of robot based on neural oscillator" was invented by Wei Zhang (Jinan, China), Yanyun Chen (Jinan, China), Jiapeng Sheng (Jinan, China), Xing Fang (Jinan, China), Wenhao Tan (Jinan, China), Ran Song (Jinan, China), Xiaolei Li (Jinan, China) and Jiyu Cheng (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for rhythmic motion control of a robot based on a neural oscillator, including: acquiring a current state of the robot, and a phase and a frequency generated by the neural oscillator; and obtaini...