US Patent Issued to OMRON on Nov. 4 for "Area setting device, rack, control system, area setting method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,122, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Area setting device, rack, control system, area setting method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program" was invented by Kazuma Mishima (Kyoto, Japan) and Tetsuya Akagi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique shortens the time taken to adjust a protection area. An area setting device includes a setting unit that sets a protection area in at least a part of a surrounding environment of a robot to detect an entry of an object, an obtainer that obtains surrounding information about the robot, and a storage prestoring a set value for t...