ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,456, issued on March 11, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image generation device, robot training system, image generation method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Kin Chung Denny Fu (Kyoto, Japan), Yuki Yamaguchi (Nara, Japan), Yohei Okawa (Koshigaya, Japan), Kennosuke Hayashi (Tokyo), Chisato Saito (Tokyo) and Yoshiya Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image generation device capable of generating, on the basis of inputted images, a learning image for training an action of a robot which carries out a prescribed operation on a workpiece. The image generation ...