US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Sept. 8 for "Offline optimization to robot behavior" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,523, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Offline optimization to robot behavior" was invented by Marco da Silva (Waltham, Mass.), Benjamin Stephens (Somerville, Mass.), Alfred Anthony Rizzi (Waltham, Mass.) and Yeuhi Abe (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may provide a model of a robot. The model may be configured to determine simulated motions of the robot based on sets of control parameters. The computing system may also operate the model with multiple sets of control parameters to simulate respective motions of the robot. The computing system may further deter...