ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,811, issued on June 23, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Accessory interfaces for a mobile manipulator robot" was invented by Guillermo Diaz-Lankenau (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael Murphy (Carlisle, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Consistent connection strategies for coupling accessories to a robot can help achieve certain objectives, e.g., to tolerate and correct misalignment during coupling of the accessory. In some embodiments, the connection strategy may enable certain accessories to connect to certain sides of a robot. When connected, an accessory may be rigid in yaw, lateral motion, and fore/aft m...