US Patent Issued to Intrinsic Innovation on Oct. 6 for "Manipulability and joint-limit distance optimizing inverse kinematics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,423, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Manipulability and joint-limit distance optimizing inverse kinematics" was invented by Giovanni Sutanto (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jean-Francois Dupuis (San Francisco), Ning Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sean Alexander Rowan (Ben Lomond, Calif.) and Stefan Schaal (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for controlling a robot to achieve a motion trajectory that simultaneously optimizes joint manipulability and joint-limit distance. In one aspect, ...