US Patent Issued to OMRON on June 24 for "Path generation device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,482, issued on June 24, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Path generation device and method" was invented by Hiromi Sasaki (Kyoto, Japan), Yuki Tsuchihashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Masahiro Murai (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception section 102 receives a classification of a shape of a target object for a case in which a robot is to perform an action along the target object. An instruction section 104 instructs a user with a number of training points identified for each classification of the shape as training points for training positions of a specific location of the robot to perform the action. An acquisiti...