ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,726, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Safety and control enhancement in tele-operated physical human-robot interactions" was invented by Yuhan Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rana Soltani Zarrin (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and a method for safety and control enhancement in tele-operated physical human-robot interactions. The electronic device receives robot capability parameters, touch parameters, and control parameters to control physical interaction of the human machine interactions (HMI) device. The electronic device controls the physical interaction of the HMI...