ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,151, issued on July 15, was assigned to JOHNAN Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Robot control system and control device" was invented by Kozo Moriyama (Kyoto, Japan), Shin Kameyama (Kyoto, Japan), Truong Gia Vu (Kyoto, Japan) and Lucas Brooks (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot control system (1) including a robot (200), at least one first camera (300) attached or fixed to the robot, a second camera (400) attached to a worker, and a control device (100). The control device controls the robot by specifying a position of a workpiece W or a component, or a skeletal posture or states of a worker based on an image of th...