ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,817, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Robot, robot control method and recording medium" was invented by Hirokazu Hasegawa (Koganei, Japan), Miyuki Urano (Akiruno, Japan) and Erina Ichikawa (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot that imitates a living thing and is driven by a battery that is rechargeable, includes an operator for causing the robot to perform an operation imitating a living thing, and a controller. In a case where the battery changes from a powered state in which a power supply operation for charging is in progress to a non-powered state that is a state in which th...