ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,553, issued on Sept. 9, 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).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present process of controlling an industrial robot includes steps consisting of calculating a time-dependent composite setpoint defining articular forces and/or velocities, according to a target trajectory and to an operating mode; calculating (S106) a behavior matrix which describes a desired behavior of the robot arm, defining directions along which the calculated composite setpoint ...