ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,949, issued on March 3, was assigned to SHANGHAI FLEXIV ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai) and FLEXIV LTD. (Cayman Islands).

"Method, robot and storage medium for aligning robot end with target object" was invented by Feijian Ni (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for aligning a robot end with a target object includes: acquiring a target direction for a surface to be aligned; selecting a control point, and establishing a coordinate system of the control point; controlling the surface to move along a direction such that the z-axis points in the target direction; rotating, when the surface is determined to be in cont...