ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,052, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to STAUBLI FAVERGES (Faverges-Seythenex, France).

"Systems and hybrid position force control processes of an industrial robot" was invented by Luc Joly (Faverges-Seythenex, France), Xavier Lamy (Saint Jorioz, France) and Gildas Rolland (Ugine, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of controlling an industrial robot includes the steps of calculating, in a calculation module, a control articular force setpoint of the axis controller module; calculating, in an articular converter, the articular conversion matrix from articular positions; providing the axis controller module with the multi-d...