ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,421, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Electro-hydraulic varifocal lens-based method for tracking three-dimensional trajectory of object by using mobile robot" was invented by Shaorong Xie (Shanghai), Hengyu Li (Shanghai), Jingyi Liu (Shanghai), Yueying Wang (Shanghai), Shuang Han (Shanghai) and Jun Luo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an electro-hydraulic varifocal lens-based method for tracking a three-dimensional (3D) trajectory of an object by using a mobile robot. By modeling an optical imaging system, a functional relation between a focusing control curre...