US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Aug. 5 for "Control mode switching apparatus and control mode switching method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,712, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Control mode switching apparatus and control mode switching method" was invented by Takeshi Kishikawa (Osaka, Japan), Yoshihiro Ujiie (Tokyo) and Ryo Hirano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control mode switching apparatus switches a control mode of a robot. The control mode includes at least two of a remote control mode, a manual control mode, and an autonomous control mode. The control mode switching apparatus includes: an anomaly detector that, based on a communication message on a control network in t...