ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,862, issued on April 29, was assigned to KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo) and MOTION LIB INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Position/force controller, and position/force control method and storage medium" was invented by Kouhei Ohnishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Mizoguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position/force controller performs a first conversion for distributing control energy to at least one of velocity or position energy and force energy, in accordance with a function to be realized, based on velocity (or position) and force information, which correspond to information relating to a p...