ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,101, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Robot" was invented by Ryusuke Ishizaki (Saitama, Japan) and Tetsuro Tanazawa (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes: links, connected in series to a base via joints; actuators, driving the joints to relatively displace a corresponding pair of links connected to each other; control devices, distributedly arranged in the base and the links and controlling the actuators; a communication cable, comprising an optical fiber connecting the control devices to each other and transmitting information; and light amount measurement devices, measuri...