US Patent Issued to CANON on July 15 for "Trajectory generating method, and trajectory generating apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,137, issued on July 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Trajectory generating method, and trajectory generating apparatus" was invented by Gen Kimura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trajectory generating method includes a first generating process of generating a plurality of trajectories between a start teaching point and a target teaching point, an evaluation process of evaluating a motion of the robot arm on each trajectory to calculate an evaluation value of each trajectory, a selection process of selecting one of the plurality of trajectories based on calculated evaluation values, and an update process of u...