US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 8 for "Region-based grasp generation" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,840, issued on July 8, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Region-based grasp generation" was invented by Yongxiang Fan (Union City, Calif.), Chi-Keng Tsai (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Tetsuaki Kato (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A region-based robotic grasp generation technique for machine tending or bin picking applications. Part and gripper geometry are provided as inputs, typically from CAD files, along with gripper kinematics. A human user defines one or more target grasp regions on the part, using a graphical user interface displaying the part geometry. The target grasp regions are identified by th...