ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,948, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Method and system of generating a feasible smooth reference trajectory for an actuator" was invented by Peyman Karimi Eskandary (Coquitlam, Canada) and Alejandro Hernandez Herdocia (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an actuator having a maximum velocity and a maximum acceleration includes accessing a reference trajectory signal comprising temporally-spaced reference positions for the actuator and accessing a trajectory template having at least a third derivative continuity and at least one characteris...