ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,089, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Robot learning" was invented by David J. Elliott (San Jose, Calif.), Gordon Grigor (San Francisco) and Arun Shamanna Lakshmi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques to improve a robotics control application are described herein. In at least one embodiment, event information is generated by one or more robots performing a mission. The event information indicates one or more determinations made by the one or more robots. The event information is stored in a log, and the stored event information can be used to simulate the genera...