US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Nov. 11 for "Detecting and responding to disturbances to a gait of a legged robot" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,501, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Detecting and responding to disturbances to a gait of a legged robot" was invented by Kevin Blankespoor (Arlington, Mass.), Alex Perkins (Arlington, Mass.) and Marco da Silva (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method may include i) determining a first distance between a pair of feet of a robot at a first time, where the pair of feet is in contact with a ground surface; ii) determining a second distance between the pair of feet of the robot at a second time, where the pair of feet remains in contact with the ground surface from the...