US Patent Issued to KUKA Deutschland on July 14 for "Method and system for automatically securing the operation of a robot system controlled by a mobile operating device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,957, issued on July 14, was assigned to KUKA Deutschland GmbH (Germany).

"Method and system for automatically securing the operation of a robot system controlled by a mobile operating device" was invented by Volker Schmirgel (Augsburg, Germany) and Florian Laquai (Friedberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for automatically securing the operation of a robot system and corresponding components of the system, wherein operation is controlled by a mobile operating device. The robot system receives presence signals transmitted from a mobile operating device via a short-range first signal connection and an oper...