ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,118, issued on July 21, was assigned to XABA INC. (Toronto).

"Techniques for controlling movement of a machine" was invented by Lorenzo Mambretti (Kitchener, Canada), Francesco Iorio (Toronto) and Massimiliano Moruzzi (Rockford, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for controlling a machine includes: determining a first state for the machine based on a kinematics model of the machine and a target roto-translation for an end effector associated with the machine; determining, using a forward-kinematics machine-learning model, a difference between the target roto-translation of the end effector and a first r...