ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,111, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Eye-on-hand reinforcement learner for dynamic grasping with active pose estimation" was invented by Siddarth Jain (Cambridge, Mass.), Baichuan Huang (Piscataway, N.J.) and Jingjin Yu (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is provided for performing dynamic grasping of a target object using visual sensory inputs. The controller includes a robotic interface connected to a robotic arm including links connected by joints having actuators and encoders, and a gripper of the end-effector of the robotic arm configu...