ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,935, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Haptic system for robot teleoperation of a remotely operated vehicle" was invented by Jing Du (Gainesville, Fla.), Pengxiang Xia (Gainesville, Fla.), Fang Xu (Gainesville, Fla.) and Qi Zhu (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method are provided herein for remote control of a robotic device, and more particularly, to a haptic system for robot teleoperation. A system for robot teleoperation is provided including: an underwater robot vehicle; a subsea sensing module associated with the underwa...