ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,070, issued on May 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Grasp teach by human demonstration" was invented by Kaimeng Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Yongxiang Fan (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for robotic grasp teaching by human demonstration. A human demonstrates a grasp on a workpiece, while a camera provides images of the demonstration which are analyzed to identify a hand pose relative to the workpiece. The hand pose is converted to a plane representing two fingers of a gripper. The hand plane is used to determine a grasp region on the workpiece which corresponds to the human demonstration....