ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,540, issued on May 27, was assigned to NIDEC SANKYO Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Industrial robot and teaching method for industrial robot" was invented by Tamotsu Kuribayashi (Nagano, Japan), Tetsuya Inomata (Nagano, Japan) and Wataru Murata (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial robot continuously and automatically executes a teaching step of learning a hand position that is the position of a hand when mounting a transported object to be placed in a predetermined position on a placing section, and a calibration step of correcting the hand position learned in the teaching step. In the calibration step, the hand is mo...