US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 25 for "Robot, control method of robot, article manufacturing method using robot, and recording medium storing control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,087, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Robot, control method of robot, article manufacturing method using robot, and recording medium storing control program" was invented by Michinao Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shuuichi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes at least two joints having a first joint and a second joint. The first joint is provided with a first drive source, and the second joint is provided with a second drive source. A motor drive substrate for driving the first drive source and a motor drive substrate for driving the second drive source are differentiated in size....