US Patent Issued to Intel on June 16 for "Task impact zone and 4-dimensional safety envelope for robots" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,325, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Task impact zone and 4-dimensional safety envelope for robots" was invented by Fabian Oboril (Karlsruhe, Germany), Cornelius Buerkle (Karlsruhe, Germany), Bernd Gassmann (Straubenhardt, Germany), Frederik Pasch (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Kay-Ulrich Scholl (Malsch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods of a safety system for analyzing and improving the safety of environments that may be shared between robots and humans. The safety system may receive a safety envelope that includes a reachable set of locations a...