US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "Tool position determination in a robotic appendage" (Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,092, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tool position determination in a robotic appendage" was invented by Julio Zamora Esquivel (Zapopan, Mexico), Leobardo Campos Macias (Guadalajara, Mexico) and Edgar Macias Garcia (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for tool position determination in a robotic appendage are described herein. A robotic appendage is put through a rotational movement to induce acceleration in a tool mounted to the appendage. A model for acceleration is created from positional kinematics of the appendage. A measurement of acceleration is taken at t...