US Patent Issued to Tacta Systems on Sept. 8 for "Controlling robotic devices to perform tasks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,542, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Tacta Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Controlling robotic devices to perform tasks" was invented by Dariusz Golda (Portola Valley, Calif.), Harry Zhe Su (Union City, Calif.), Darshan Hegde (San Mateo, Calif.) and Qingkai Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robotic device to perform a task may include determining a force measurement corresponding to a section of sensors coupled with a digit of a plurality of digits of a robotic device. The force measurement may include a magnitude of a force and a position of a centroid of the force in the section t...