ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,925, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Robot control system, robot control method and program" was invented by Satoshi Nakamura (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example implementations described herein, there are systems and methods for controlling a cooperative robotic device including generating, for the cooperative robotic device, a plurality of candidate task end states associated with a first task. The method may further include selecting, for the cooperative robotic device, a first task end state from the plurality of candidate task end states, receiving load data regarding a load experienc...