ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,064, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Interference determination device, robot control system, and method for determining interference" was invented by Takuya Miyamoto (Kadoma, Japan), Masato Mori (Osaka, Japan), Kazuki Ono (Osaka, Japan) and Sho Bunno (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interference determination device includes a controller that determines interference between a robot and an object. The controller obtains a plurality of vertices of at least one object within a motion range of the robot in a real space and positional information regarding the plurality of vertices. The co...