ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,296, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to REALTIME ROBOTICS INC. (Boston).
"Motion planning and control for robots in shared workspace employing staging poses" was invented by Sean Murray (Victor, Mont.), Peter Englert (Berlin), Xianchao Long (Waltham, Mass.), Arne Sieverling (Berlin) and Ty Tremblay (Melrose, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The structures and algorithms described herein employ staging poses to facilitate the operation robots operating in a shared workspace or workcell, preventing or at least reducing the risk of collision while efficiently moving robots to one or more goals to perform respective tasks. Motion pla...