ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,785, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Robot control method and apparatus, robot, and storage medium" was invented by Cheng Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Yu Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control method includes: controlling an end effector of the robot to collide with a target object in a process of the end effector moving to the target object; controlling the end effector to rotate relative to the target object, to adjust the target object to a target pose corresponding to a pick-up action; and controlling the end effector to pick up the target object afte...