ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,131, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Picking system" was invented by Masaya Kawai (Tokyo) and Takehiro Maeda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This picking system comprises: a workpiece posture calculator that calculates postures of workpieces from captured image data acquired from an imager, selects a workpiece to be picked, and determines a gripping position and an angle; a robot that grips and takes out the selected workpiece, on the basis of the determination by the workpiece posture calculator; a posture changing device that changes the posture of a grasped member; and a controller that, ...