ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,945, issued on July 14.

"Estimation of external force for robot control" was invented by Tsuyoshi Yokoya (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control system includes circuitry configured to acquire a plurality of disturbance torques and a plurality of axis positions for a plurality of axes of a robot. The plurality of disturbance torques corresponds to the plurality of axis positions, and the plurality of disturbance torques and the plurality of axis positions correspond to a particular motion of the robot. The circuitry is further configured to transmit input data to a learned model for external force. The input da...