ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,698, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).
"Robot arm modelling" was invented by Samuel P Wild (Derby, Great Britain), Xin Dong (Derby, Great Britain) and Andrew D Norton (Derby, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the position and shape of a flexible arm robot having at least one distributed Bragg reflector integrated, the method comprising: moving the flexible arm robot through a series of movements; tracking the movements of the flexible arm robot and recording positional data of at least a section of the flexible arm robot as a ground truth and interrogating the distribute...