ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,056, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Simulation of liquid objects manipulated by robots using supervised learning" was invented by Yohei Okawa (Koshigaya, Japan), Yoshiya Shibata (Tokyo), Chisato Saito (Tokyo), Kennosuke Hayashi (Tokyo), Kin Chung Denny Fu (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuki Yamaguchi (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation device that reduces the computation load required for simulation of the movement of an operation subject is provided. The simulation device includes a processor configured to set framing conditions for a model representing the operation subject, set conditions ...