ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,545, issued on May 27, was assigned to UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Walking control method, biped robot and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Chunyu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jie Bai (Shenzhen, China), Yizhang Liu (Shenzhen, China), Ligang Ge (Shenzhen, China), Zheng Xie (Shenzhen, China) and Youjun Xiong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A walking control method for a biped robot includes: detecting whether the biped robot is in an unbalanced state; in response to detection that the biped robot is in the unbalanced state, obtaining a predicted balance step length corresponding to the biped...