ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,099, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to WUHAN UNITED IMAGING SURGICAL Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Hand-eye calibration methods, systems, and storage media for robots" was invented by Tong Wu (Wuhan, China), Bo Wu (Wuhan, China) and Qiang Xie (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-eye calibration method, apparatus, system, and storage medium for a robot are provided. The method includes: obtaining images of a target body of a calibration target acquired by an imaging device when the robot (110) is in different poses; for any pose, determining, based on at least one image collected in the pose, a first transformation relationshi...