US Patent Issued on Aug. 26 for "Robot for performing dextrous tasks and related methods and systems" (California, Georgia, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,440, issued on Aug. 26.

"Robot for performing dextrous tasks and related methods and systems" was invented by Joseph E. Augenbraun (Redwood City, Calif.), Ashis Ghosh (San Francisco), Stephen J. Hansen (San Francisco), Achille Verheye (San Francisco), Dalia MacPhee (Los Angeles), Lief Terry (Decatur, Ga.), Fang-Ting Kao (Oakland, Calif.) and Edmund Kelly Friese (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot having a transportation assembly, a robotic arm, and control systems is disclosed. A positioning control system for the robot is configured to communicate with the transportation assembly to provide commands to the transport...