ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,126, issued on July 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clar, Calif.).

"Controlling a robot during interaction with a human" was invented by Sammy Joe Christen (Lucerne, Switzerland), Wei Yang (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Claudia Perez D'Arpino (Seattle), Dieter Fox (Seattle) and Yu-Wei Chao (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to control a real-world and/or virtual device (e.g., a robot). In at least one embodiment, the device is controlled based, at least in part on, for example, one or more neural networks. Parameter values for the neural network(s) may be obtained by training the n...