US Patent Issued to Universal Robots on May 13 for "Robot arm with adaptive three-dimensional boundary in free-drive" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,485, issued on May 13, was assigned to Universal Robots A/S (Odense S., Denmark).

"Robot arm with adaptive three-dimensional boundary in free-drive" 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 5 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 activ...