ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,959, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dexterity Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Robotic system to control multiple robots to perform a task cooperatively" was invented by Zhouwen Sun (San Mateo, Calif.), Talbot Morris-Downing (Redwood City, Calif.), Harry Zhe Su (Union City, Calif.), Rohun Kulkarni (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin Jose Chavez (Redwood City, Calif.), Samir Menon (Atherton, Calif.), Toby Leonard Baker (Redwood City, Calif.), David Leo Tondreau III (San Francisco) and Robert Holmberg (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system to control multiple robots to perform a task cooperatively is disclosed. ...