ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,110, issued on Nov. 4.
"Determination of picking order of workpieces" was invented by Ryo Kabutan (Fukuoka, Japan), Ryohei Suzuki (Tokyo) and Takuya Kadoya (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes circuitry and a robot. The circuitry is configured to set, based on a plurality of workpieces that move along a conveying surface, a window corresponding to n workpieces of the plurality of workpieces, according to an inflow order that is an order in which the plurality of workpieces have moved along the conveying surface, where nless than1. The circuitry is further configured to determine a picking order by an ...