ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,034, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Mantis Robotics Inc. (Danville, Calif.).
"Robot system" was invented by Pei Jui Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Gerry Vannuffelen (Danville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system for human-robot collaboration is disclosed that includes one or more proximity sensing elements disposed on the movable parts of the robot, joint position sensing sensors, and a safety control module connects the proximity sensing element and joint position sensing sensors and monitors the speed of the robot and the proximity distance to the objects and stop the robot safely when speed exceed the set limit...