ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,104, issued on March 24, was assigned to SCALABLE ROBOTICS INC. (Ellington, Conn.).

"System and method for teaching a robot program" was invented by Thomas Andrew Fuhlbrigge (Ellington, Conn.), Carlos Martinez (South Windsor, Conn.) and Gregory Rossano (Enfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for teaching a robot program based on user input. In some embodiments, poses of a posing device manipulated by a user are captured and analyzed. In some embodiments, robot instructions are determined by a machine-learning algorithm that is trained on data concerning previously executed instructions evaluated by a user....