ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,725, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Robot simulator with efficient contact wrench estimation" was invented by Samarth Manoj Brahmbhatt (Mountain View, Calif.) and German Ros Sanchez (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and systems for optimizing a robot simulator through calibration and/or training. The system collects real-world data points and simulation data points of a movement of a robot based on a heuristic policy that defines a threshold criterion for the movement of the robot. At least two data points of the simulation data points ar...