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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,501, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot teaching method and robot working method" was invented by Kazuki Kurashima (Kobe, Japan), Hitoshi Hasunuma (Kobe, Japan), Takeshi Yamamoto (Kobe, Japan), Masaomi Iida (Kobe, Japan) and Tomomi Sano (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The robot teaching method includes a pre-registration step, robot operation step, and teaching step. The pre-registration step is for specifying a relative self-position of a measuring device with respect to surrounding environment by measuring the surrounding environment using the measuring device, and registering...