ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,386, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Teaching device, teaching method, and robot system" was invented by Yasusato Fujieda (Tokyo) and Hisashi Matsumoto (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teaching device constructs, in a virtual space, a virtual robot system in which a virtual 3D model of a robot and a virtual 3D model of a peripheral structure of the robot are arranged, and teaches a moving path of the robot. The teaching device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a geometric error between the virtual 3D models, and a correction unit configured to correct the movin...