ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,731, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating robotic control plans" was invented by Ryan Butterfoss (San Francisco) and Adam Nicholas Ruxton (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a robotic control plan. One of the methods includes obtaining, from a user device, image data depicting an instruction manual for assembling a plurality of assembly components; processing the image data using a machine learning model to generate instruction data representing a sequen...