US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on May 13 for "Position detection method, controller, and robot system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,474, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Position detection method, controller, and robot system" was invented by Toshihiko Miyazaki (Kobe, Japan), Jun Takebayashi (Kobe, Japan), Akio Yoda (Kobe, Japan), Toshiyuki Tsujimori (Kobe, Japan), Satoshi Ouchi (Kobe, Japan) and Yukio Iwasaki (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: (a) causing a robotic arm to position a contacting structure of the arm laterally in a horizontal direction in relation to a first subject on a target object; (b) causing the arm to bring the contacting structure into contact with at least three locations o...