ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,673, issued on April 7, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method of calibrating manipulator, control system and robot system" was invented by Sven Hanssen (Vasteras, Sweden), Hans Andersson (Vasteras, Sweden) and Johan Noren (Vasteras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating a manipulator of an industrial robot, the method including providing a primary manipulator having one or more primary joints and a primary mounting interface; providing a secondary manipulator having one or more secondary joints and a secondary mounting interface, where the primary mounting interface is substantially rigi...