US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Jan. 28 for "Robot hand operation device, robot hand operation system, robot arm operation system, and robot operation system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,512, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Robot hand operation device, robot hand operation system, robot arm operation system, and robot operation system" was invented by Noboru Kawaguchi (Tokyo), Masaki Hirano (Tokyo), Shota Narasaki (Tokyo), Hayato Hoshino (Tokyo) and Shingo Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot hand operation device through which an operator inputs an operation instruction to move a robot hand including at least three fingers includes: a main body portion held by the operator; and joysticks each being corresponded with each of the fingers of the robot hand to be op...