ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,088, issued on July 22, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Self-interference determination device" was invented by Yuuki Kimoto (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This self-interference determination device is provided with a link shape correction unit that corrects link shapes on the basis of a specified distance between link shapes at which links of a robot comprising a plurality of links are regarded as having undergone self-interference, and a shape interference determination unit that determines the presence or absence of self-interference on the basis of the link shapes."
The patent was filed on Nov...