ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,529, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Robot system" was invented by Yuta Namiki (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system including: a robot that grips one of a first and second workpiece that are disposed adjacent to each other; an illumination device that radiates light beam onto surfaces of the first workpiece and the second workpiece on either side of a border between the workpieces along a plane that intersects the border; a camera that captures an image containing a first line image of the light beam formed on the surface of the first workpiece and a second line image of ...