ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,052, issued on May 19, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device and method for controlling a robot" was invented by Chana Ross (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Yakov Miron (Haifa, Israel), Yuval Goldfracht (Haifa, Israel) and Dotan Di Castro (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a control policy for a robot device includes acquiring a reference state of an environment of the robot device and a reference observation of the environment for the reference state. The method also includes generating, for each of a plurality of errors of an estimation of a pose of the robot device, an observation...