ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,019, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Universal Robots A/S (Odense S, Denmark).
"Safe activation of free-drive mode of robot arm" was invented by Jacob Gregers Hansen (Kolding, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a robot controller controlling a robot arm, the robot controller is configured to maintain the robot arm in a static posture when only gravity is acting on the robot arm and allow change in posture of the robot arm when an external force different from gravity is applied to the robot arm. The free-drive mode of operation is activatable by a user establishing a free-drive activation signal to the...