ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,032, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Route generation device, route generation method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Shota Ishikawa (Kariya, Japan), Tomoaki Ozaki (Kariya, Japan) and Toshitaka Suzuki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route is generated for a robot with multiple parts connected rotatably. Multiple waypoints indicating a posture of the robot are registered. It is determined whether a registration waypoint is allowable as the posture of the robot. The route is generated to connect an added waypoint and an existing waypoint. It is ...