ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,703, issued on May 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Detection device and detection method" was invented by Tadanori Suzuki (Yamanashi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging control unit of this detection device controls the imaging orientation of a three-dimensional camera such that one end of a workpiece enters the field of view of the three-dimensional camera, and then controls the imagining orientation of the three-dimensional camera such that the other end of the workpiece enters the field of view of the three-dimensional camera. A coordinate acquisition unit acquires the position coordinates of ...