ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,418, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Processing method, program and robot system" was invented by Tatsutoshi Asato (Kobe, Japan), Hideki Isoda (Kobe, Japan) and Masato Katsube (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing method includes one or both of a first processing and a second processing for extracting a reference teaching point from teaching points. The first processing extracts a reference teaching point having a difference between a direction vector from a teaching point preceding the reference teaching point to the reference teaching point, and a direction vector from the...