ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,785, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Rebar tying robot" was invented by Kengo Onoda (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rebar tying robot may include a rebar tying unit, a conveying unit, and a control unit. The conveying unit may include a longitudinal movement mechanism, a lateral movement mechanism, and a first three-dimensional distance sensor. The control unit may be configured to execute a first rebar extraction process in which the control unit extracts point clouds from point clouds included in the first point cloud data, a first judgement process in which the control unit judges whet...