ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,694, issued on April 8, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Controller" was invented by Sayaka Doi (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroki Koga (Kyoto, Japan), Shinji Kawakami (Kyoto, Japan) and Yukihisa Karako (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes: a deformation information obtaining unit configured to obtain information on deformation of a suction portion that suctions an object with negative pressure, and that is deformed by the negative pressure; and an operation control unit configured to control movement of the suction portion in accordance with deformation of the suction portion."
The patent was filed on ...