US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on March 3 for "Teaching a robot system using hand gesture control and visual-inertial-odometry" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,947, issued on March 3, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Teaching a robot system using hand gesture control and visual-inertial-odometry" was invented by Geng Yang (Singapore), Wai Yang Chan (Singapore) and Boon Siew Han (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of teaching a robot system is provided. The method may comprise detecting, by a first sensor system (102) of the robot system, an operator's hand gesture (103), and moving (S3) a robotic arm (101) of the robot system in accordance with the operator's hand gesture (103). The method may comprise detect...