ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,958, issued on July 29, was assigned to Tomahawk Robotics Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Spatial teleoperation of legged vehicles" was invented by Matthew D. Summer (Melbourne, Fla.), William S. Bowman (Melbourne, Fla.), Andrew D. Falendysz (Winter Green, Fla.), Kevin M. Makovy (Palm Bay, Fla.), Daniel R. Hedman (Palm Bay, Fla.) and Bradley D. Truesdell (Vero Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of manipulating/controlling robots. In many scenarios, data collected by a sensor (connected to a robot) may not have very high precision (e.g., a regular commercial/inexpensive sensor) or may be subjected to dynamic envir...