ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,635, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Robot cell system design device, method, and program" was invented by Takeshi Kojima (Kyoto, Japan), Haruka Fujii (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryoichi Kuratani (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquisition unit acquires specification information about a robot that is a component of a robot cell system, member information including shape information about a member, other than the robot, which is also a component of the robot cell system, and work information relating to work to be performed by the robot. A layout planning unit calculates, based on the specification...