ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,123, issued on July 21, was assigned to AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for estimating posture of robot" was invented by Jung Won Lee (Suwon-Si, South Korea), Dong Yeon Yoo (Suwon-Si, South Korea) and Dong-Hee Yun (Suwon-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating a posture of a robot is disclosed. The posture estimation method of the robot according to the present disclosure includes: generating a first marker and at least one second marker and attaching them to the robot; collecting an image including the first marker and at least one of ...