ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,135, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Method and system for controlling a robot manipulator for operating in a shared workspace with human(s)" was invented by Guoqiang Hu (Singapore) and Kaige Shi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a robot manipulator for operating in a shared workspace with human(s) is provided. The method includes: determining a safety control set with respect to a safety condition between selected part(s) of the robot manipulator and selected part(s) of the human(s) using a safety control function; determining a hard constraint control...