US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Feb. 3 for "Robot control device, robot system, and robot control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,620, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot control device, robot system, and robot control program" was invented by Hiroki Suemoto (Kobe, Japan), Ryusuke Nishikawa (Kobe, Japan), Yuki Takayama (Kobe, Japan), Toshiyuki Homma (Kobe, Japan) and Kyo Irie (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot controller includes: a movement controller moving a robot arm including a hand; and an opening/closing controller opening and closing at least one of fingers included in hand in a predetermined direction. The movement controller causes the robot arm to bring at least one of the fingers into contact...