US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Aug. 18 for "Controlling foot landing points and step order of legged robot based on foot contact force" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,754, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Controlling foot landing points and step order of legged robot based on foot contact force" was invented by Yu Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Xinyang Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Wanchao Chi (Shenzhen, China), Yonggen Ling (Shenzhen, China), Shenghao Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhengyou Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling motion of a legged robot includes determining one or more candidate landing points for each foot of the robot. The method further includes determining a first correlation between a center of mass ...