ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,671, issued on April 7, was assigned to Watney Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).

"Teleoperation system for robotic manipulation, and methods, apparatus, and systems thereof" was invented by Ryan Gannon (Berkeley, Calif.) and Sean Cheong (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleoperation system, including a robotic controller configured to translate a plurality of user inputs to a plurality of robotic control signals. A robotic manipulator, configured to operate separately from the robotic controller and to receive robotic control signals from the robotic controller, the robotic manipulator comprising a plurality of first j...