ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,091, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Picking device, picking method, and program" was invented by Yasuyuki Kamai (Tokyo), Yusuke Murakami (Koganei, Japan), Daichi Suzuki (Tachikawa, Japan), Akihiro Nakamura (Tokyo) and Tomoyoshi Yukimoto (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picking device includes: a workpiece holder in which a plurality of workpieces is stacked; a light receiver that receives reflected light from a workpiece stacked in the workpiece holder; a mover that relatively moves the light receiver with respect to the workpiece in such a manner that a distance between the light re...