ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,130, issued on July 21, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Modeling a robot working environment" was invented by Rene Kirsten (Fernwald, Germany), Nima Enayati (Mannheim, Germany), Arne Wahrburg (Weiterstadt, Germany), Mikael Norrlof (Norrkoping, Sweden) and Morten Akerblad (Vasteras, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modeling a working environment of a robot comprising providing a robot having a base, a reference point, a plurality of links by which the reference point is movably connected to the base, and sensors for detecting positions of or angles between the links, providing a controller adapt...