ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,930, issued on May 6, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland).

"Compliance correction in a robotic system" was invented by Callan Gillespie (Cleveland), Robb Colbrunn (Cleveland) and Tara Nagle (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Movement of an object can occur while a control system corrects for compliance within a robotic system. The control system can include the object to be moved, the robotic system that moves the object, a primary sensor positioned on the object, at least one ancillary sensor positioned on the object, and a controller. The sensors can record position and orientation data at different p...