US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for tactile gesture interpretation" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,051, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for tactile gesture interpretation" was invented by Elizabeth Bianchini (Pittsburgh), Prateek Verma (Stanford, Calif.), J. Kenneth Salisbury Jr. (Mountain View, Calif.) and Etienne Chassaing (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating handoffs between a robot and a counterpart in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for controlling a robot to handoff an object. The method includes steps for pre...