ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,082, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Motion guidance and natural language commands based robotic systems" was invented by Thomas Kollar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system is contemplated. The robotic system comprises a robot comprising a camera, a microphone, memory, and a controller that is configured to receive a natural language command for performing an action within a real world environment, parse the natural language command, categorize the action as being associated with guidance for performing the act...