ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,097, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Providing safety in a robot system" was invented by Roger Mellander (Vasteras, Sweden) and Per Carlsson (Vasteras, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a first group of robot controllers, each including a safety change control unit and each being connected to at least one corresponding manipulator, where one robot controller is a proxy robot controller. The safety change control unit of the proxy receives a request to manually operate at least one joint of at least one of the manipulators via a first point of manual control at one o...