ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,108, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Grasp selection" was invented by Thomas Power (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rana Soltani Zarrin (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for grasp selection may include receiving one or more candidate object trajectories and a current grasp of a robotic hand on an object, sampling random candidate grasps for the one or more candidate object trajectories based on the current grasp, generating one or more grasps to be optimized for each of the one or more candidate object trajectories based on the sampled candidate grasps, and optimizing o...