ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,783, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Skills for safety in robotic control systems" was invented by Michael Beardsworth (San Francisco).

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 executing one or more actions based on a safety skill. One of the methods comprises receiving, by a robotics control system, a skill that defines actions to be performed by a robot controlled by the robotics control system, where the skill specifies one or more safety constraints that represent safety conditions that mus...