US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 15 for "Teleoperated finger gaiting skill via gaussian process residual learning" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,697, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Teleoperated finger gaiting skill via gaussian process residual learning" was invented by Patrick Naughton (Champaign, Ill.), Jinda Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Karankumar Patel (San Jose, Calif.) and Soshi Iba (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for retargeting a motion of a hand to a multi-fingered robot hand may determine a residual between an optimization-based retargeting method and a labeled configuration of the multi-fingered robot hand using a predefined set of hand-labeled calibration poses. The method for retargeting may use an op...