US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on April 22 for "Robot teaching device and robot teaching program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,502, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot teaching device and robot teaching program" was invented by Shinya Kitano (Kobe, Japan), Kazuo Fujimori (Kobe, Japan) and Yukihiro Kawaguchi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teaching device is a teaching device for a robot including a base, an arm having a plurality of links coupled to each other and coupled to the base, and a hand coupled to the arm. The teaching device includes a setter that sets a predetermined condition including start and end points of the hand in predetermined movement of the arm; a deriver that derives a movement t...