US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Aug. 26 for "Haptic system for robot teleoperation in confined spaces" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,442, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Haptic system for robot teleoperation in confined spaces" was invented by Jing Du (Gainesville, Fla.), Qi Zhu (Gainesville, Fla.) and Tianyu Zhou (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method are provided for remote control of a robotic device, and more particularly, to a haptic system for robot teleoperation in confined spaces. A haptic feedback system for robot teleoperation is provided including: a robot; a robot control; and an upper-body haptic feedback garment including a first vibrati...