ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,504, issued on April 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Robot control method" was invented by Masayoshi Iwatani (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyuki Nakata (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyoshi Ueda (Osaka, Japan), Atsumi Hashimoto (Osaka, Japan), Yasuyoshi Honuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Ryosuke Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When workpiece (W) is brought into a non-gripping state after deflection compensation of robot arm (10) is performed in a gripping state of workpiece (W), the deflection compensation of robot arm (10) is performed in a non-gripping state of workpiece (W). Here, the...