ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,819, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for dexterous manipulation by a robot" was invented by Changhao Wang (Berkeley, Calif.) and Rana Soltani Zarrin (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for dexterous robot manipulation includes a first robot configured to perform real simulations with a real object, and at least one computer configured to perform a set of virtual simulations including a robot model and a virtual object corresponding to the first robot and the real object, and develop a trajectory of the robot model based on virtual simulation information of the r...