US Patent Issued to Colorado School of Mines on Aug. 11 for "Gesture-controlled robotic feedback" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,838, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colo.).

"Gesture-controlled robotic feedback" was invented by Avigal Denise Segal (Evergreen, Colo.), Andrew Jacob Petruska (Golden, Colo.) and Anne Katherine Silverman (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method of providing an intervention, includes: obtaining a motion sensing device configured for manipulation by a user; creating, via one or more processing elements, a communication link between the motion sensing device and a robot; and detecting, via the motion sensing device, a movement initiated by the user; creating, via th...