US Patent Issued to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems on Aug. 4 for "Systems, devices, and methods for contact detection by a robot system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,727, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems, devices, and methods for contact detection by a robot system" was invented by Connor Richard Shannon (Vancouver, Canada) and Kevin Jiaming Wu (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot has a controller and a sensor. The sensor is communicatively coupled to the controller. The controller includes a contact response system. A safety response of the contact response system is activated for the sensor. A method of operation of the robot includes detecting, by the sensor, a contact between the robot and a human, the contac...