ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,604, issued on April 1, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Control method for robot system and robot system" was invented by Yutaka Arakawa (Suwa-Gun Hara-mura, Japan) and Tomohisa Iwazaki (Suwa-Gun Shimosuwa-machi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for a robot system includes setting a robot arm in a first attitude, performing work in a first region of an object while moving a tool relative to the object by a moving stage with the first attitude maintained, setting the robot arm in a second attitude, imaging the object using a camera and correcting a position of the tool by driving of the moving stage ba...