ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,557, issued on April 1, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).

"Automatic polishing system and automatic polishing device" was invented by Yoshikane Tanaami (Nagoya, Japan), Koji Ito (Nagoya, Japan) and Miyuki Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an automatic polishing system that is capable of adjusting a degree of polishing in accordance with a condition of a surface of a body of a mobile object. The automatic polishing system includes: a multi-articulated robot; a polishing machine including a spindle that spins around an axis and a polishing tool that is fixed at an end of the spindle; a sens...