ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,674, issued on April 7, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and LINCOLN GLOBAL INC. (Cleveland).

"Multi-agent calibration and motion control" was invented by Peter Wang (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Christopher J. Masuo (Knoxville, Tenn.), Andrzej Nycz (Knoxville, Tenn.), Alexander W. Arbogast (Atlanta), Steven D. Patrick (Austin, Texas) and Jonathan H. Paul (Chardon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for calibrating a robotic system. The methods comprise: obtaining point cloud data comprising data points specifying tracked locations of tracking target(s) coupled to robotic arm(s) while the robotic arm(s) dr...