US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on July 29 for "Robot stop position setting device and mobile robot system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,970, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Robot stop position setting device and mobile robot system" was invented by Ryo Koyama (Tokyo) and Nobutaka Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot stop position setting device that sets a stop position of a robot, including a map storage unit for storing map information, a stop position storage unit for storing a robot stop position, a reference position output unit that outputs a reference position for calculating the robot stop position, and a stop position calculation unit that calculates the robot stop position based on the referen...