ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,897, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Teaching method" was invented by Yuya Maruyama (Fuefuki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teaching method for generating an operation program of a robot based on an operation in which an operator sequentially moves a plurality of objects to an arrangement region and arranges the objects so as to form a target arrangement pattern, the teaching method including an imaging step of imaging the object moved to the arrangement region in the operation, a recognizing step of recognizing a position of the object imaged in the imaging step, an estimating step of estimati...