ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,148, issued on July 15, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan) and Skylla Technologies (Lexington, Mass.).

"Robot-mounted moving device, system, and machine tool" was invented by Yuta Oba (Nara, Japan), Tsutomu Sakurai (Hokkaido, Japan), Hideki Nagasue (Nara, Japan), Masaaki Nakagawa (Nara, Japan), Kota Weaver (Lexington, Mass.) and Anand Parwal (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a machine tool 10, a robot 25 having a camera 31, and a transfer device 35 having the robot 25 mounted thereon, and an identification figure is arranged in a machining area of the machine tool 10."

The patent was fil...