US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on June 17 for "Robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,297, issued on June 17, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Robot" was invented by Yosaku Tamura (Azumino, Japan), Takayuki Nakamura (Shiojiri, Japan), Kazuhisa Yano (Shiojiri, Japan) and Yuta Ichimiya (Matsumoto, 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 base and the cover includes a cover main body that covers ...