ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,832, issued on June 30, was assigned to Robust AI Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for an autonomous mobile robot haptic feedback" was invented by Benjie Holson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jamie Luong (San Mateo, Calif.), Justine Rembisz (San Carlos, Calif.), Heather Klaubert (San Jose, Calif.), Leila Takayama (Palo Alto, Calif.), Anthony Sean Jules (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Rodney Allen Brooks (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An omnidirectional mechanical drive unit in a robot may be controlled by a processor. An input message characterizing a physical force exerted on a force sensor in a first direction may be...