ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,635, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Control device, robot, control method, and program" was invented by Norikazu Tonogai (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinya Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a robot including a three-dimensional sensor to measure a scan area includes a position determiner that determines, based on positions of a plurality of ranges in the scan area, a plurality of measurement positions at each of which the three-dimensional sensor performs measurement of a corresponding range of the plurality of ranges, an operation controller that controls the robot...