ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,472, issued on May 13, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Mobile manipulator" was invented by Tomohiro Okada (Kyoto, Japan) and Teisuke Katagi (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to allow for the mounting of two transported objects without increasing the width of a transport vehicle, a mobile manipulator (1) is provided with: an unmanned transport vehicle (2); a robot base portion (3) mounted on the unmanned transport vehicle; a robot arm (4) mounted on the robot base portion; and brackets (5), (6) for mounting cassettes (11) over the robot base portion. The bracket (5) holds the cassettes in an inclined s...