ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,946, issued on March 3, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device and method for controlling a robot device" was invented by Meng Guo (Beijing) and Mathias Buerger (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robot device. The method includes providing a selection model and executing multiple instances of a task, including, in each execution, when a function of the robot device needs to be selected to perform the task instance, checking whether the selection model provides a selection of a function and, if yes, controlling the robot device to perform the function selected by the ...