US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on July 1 for "Control device, control system, robot system, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,873, issued on July 1, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Control device, control system, robot system, and control method" was invented by Shingo Yonemoto (Kobe, Japan), Takanori Kozuki (Kobe, Japan), Masahiko Akamatsu (Kobe, Japan), Hitoshi Hasunuma (Kobe, Japan) and Masayuki Kamon (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: first circuitry that generates a command to cause a robot to autonomously grind a grinding target portion; second circuitry that generates a command to cause the robot to grind a grinding target portion according to manipulation information from an operation device; ...