US Patent Issued to OMRON on Oct. 21 for "Settings support device, settings support method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,623, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Settings support device, settings support method, and program" was invented by Yuki Nishina (Ikoma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique allows efficient registration of an accurate gripping position of a robot hand with an auxiliary view appearing on a screen in accordance with the robot hand. A user selects a hand type to be used in gripping a gripping target and designates an auxiliary view to be rendered in accordance with the hand. In response to a two-finger hand being selected (step S11), a plane (step S13), a cylinder (step S14), or a rectangular...