ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,670, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Generating a sequence of pose configurations for a robotic manipulator based on force and velocity ellipsoids" was invented by Yinan Pei (Somerville, Mass.) and Yuri Anatoly Ivanov (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating pose sequences for a robotic manipulator to perform a task based on velocity ellipsoids and force ellipsoids are described herein. For example, a computer system can generate candidate pose configurations of a robotic manipulator. Each candidate pose configuration can include a first end of the robotic mani...