ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,866, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Robot step control method, robot control apparatus, and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Ligang Ge (Shenzhen, China), Yizhang Liu (Shenzhen, China), Qiuyue Luo (Shenzhen, China), Chunyu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Xuan Luo (Shenzhen, China) and Jiangchen Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot step control method, a robot control apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining an expected support force of two legs of a biped robot according to zero-moment point planning data and actual ...