US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 22 for "Robot having an arm cover partially covering an arm of the robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,082, issued on July 22, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Robot having an arm cover partially covering an arm of the robot" was invented by Yuta Ichimiya (Matsumoto, Japan), Takayuki Nakamura (Shiojiri, Japan), Kazuhisa Yano (Shiojiri, Japan) and Yosaku Tamura (Azumino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes a base; a first arm rotatably connected to the base around a first rotation axis; and a second arm rotatably connected to the first arm around a second rotation axis parallel to the first rotation axis, wherein the second arm includes an arm base and a cover configured to attach to and detach from the arm...