US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITA DI PISA, FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA on Sept. 2 for "Process of interacting with objects" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,613, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to UNIVERSITA DI PISA (Pisa, Italy) and FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA (Genoa, Italy).

"Process of interacting with objects" was invented by Antonio Bicchi (Massa, Italy), Gianluca Lentini (Cormano, Italy), Manuel Giuseppe Catalano (Pisa, Italy) and Giorgio Grioli (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of interacting with objects is provided including a robot with an end effector, a driver of the end effector and sensors for acquiring at least one environmental or interaction parameter; a computer for controlling the robot; an instruction block configured to instruct the...