US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on Sept. 22 for "System and method for controlling a multi-legged robot" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,375, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for controlling a multi-legged robot" was invented by Marcel Menner (Arlington, Mass.), Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.) and Alexander Schperberg (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a system and a method for controlling a robot to perform a task. The robot is a legged robot that comprises a trunk and a plurality of legs for supporting the trunk above a ground. The system is configured to collect a reference trajectory defining a sequence of states of the robot to pe...