ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,787, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"Robotic arm obstacle avoiding path planning method" was invented by Sang Feng (Guangzhou, China), Xilong Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Xiaotao Huang (Guangzhou, China), Yanyang Chen (Guangzhou, China), Shutao Chen (Guangzhou, China), Yan Hu (Guangzhou, China) and Yiming Huang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic arm obstacle avoiding path planning method is provided. The method includes the following steps: step 1: simplifying the robotic arm model and obstacles, determining robotic arm joint points, and adopting virtual ...