ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,174, issued on June 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling motion of legged robot, device, and medium" was invented by Yu Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Xinyang Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Wanchao Chi (Shenzhen, China), Yonggen Ling (Shenzhen, China), Shenghao Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhengyou Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling motion of a legged robot includes: determining, according to state data of the legged robot at a start moment in a preset period, a candidate landing point of each foot in the preset period; determining, accor...