ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,716, issued on March 25, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"System for guiding the movement of a manipulator having a first processor and at least one second processor" was invented by Stefan Ender (Gessertshausen, Germany) and Holger Monnich (Friedberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for changing or expanding application tasks of a manipulator via a first processor and a second processor and a system for guiding the movement of the manipulator, wherein the system includes a first processor for performing control tasks relating to guiding the movement, the control tasks being performable in real-time and being pe...