US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Feb. 17 for "Control of robotic devices with non-constant body pitch" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,476, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Control of robotic devices with non-constant body pitch" was invented by Gina Christine Fay (Waltham, Mass.), Alex Yu Khripin (Waltham, Mass.) and Eric Whitman (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example implementation involves controlling robots with non-constant body pitch and height. The implementation involves obtaining a model of the robot that represents the robot as a first point mass rigidly coupled with a second point mass along a longitudinal axis. The implementation also involves determining a state of a first pair of legs, and de...