ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,965, issued on March 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Camera and end-effector planning for visual servoing" was invented by Javier Felip Leon (Hillsboro, Ore.), Leobardo Campos Macias (Guadalajara, Mexico), David Gomez Gutierrez (Tlaquepaque, Mexico), Javier Turek (Beaverton, Ore.) and David Gonzalez Aguirre (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of techniques, systems, and use cases may be used for camera and end-effector planning for visual servoing for example in redundant manipulators. A technique may include generating a set of paths of an end effector of a robotic arm, and ranking t...