ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,883, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INTRINSIC INNOVATION LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Safety system for integrated human/robotic environments" was invented by Ethan Rublee (Mountain View, Calif.) and John Zevenbergen (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for specifying safety rules for robotic devices. A computing device can determine information about any actors present within a predetermined area of an environment. The computing device can determine a safety classification for the predetermined area based on the information. The safety classification can include: a low safety classif...