ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,207, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dusty Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for dual stage control of field printer robot" was invented by Sohum Misra (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan Michael Dimick (Redwood City, Calif.), William Charles Messner (Amesbury, Mass.) and Philipp Josef Herget (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller design for a dual input single output (DISO) system is applied to a robot for printing layouts at construction sites. The differential drive robot has a separately controlled linear actuator that moves the print head perpendicularly to the fore-aft axis of the robot. ...