US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on May 19 for "Systems and methods for recording robot missions" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,051, issued on May 19, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for recording robot missions" was invented by Joseph Hufford Yanks (Medford, Mass.), Samuel Frank Seifert (Watertown, Mass.), Mario Attilio Bollini (Somerville, Mass.) and Leland John Hepler (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques to undo a portion of a mission recording of a robot by physically moving the robot back through the mission recording in reverse. As a result, after the undo process is completed, the robot is positioned at an earlier point in the mission and the use...