US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 25 for "Workpiece holding apparatus, workpiece holding method, program, and control apparatus capable of preventing a selected workpiece from being attracted and held by other workpieces" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,094, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Workpiece holding apparatus, workpiece holding method, program, and control apparatus capable of preventing a selected workpiece from being attracted and held by other workpieces" was invented by Tatsuro Mori (Toyota, Japan), Jun Ikarashi (Komaki, Japan), Yoshiki Nagai (Toyota, Japan), Toshio Ueshiba (Tokyo) and Yukiyasu Domae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece holding apparatus include holding means for attracting and holding each workpiece in turn from among workpieces placed in a 3D space; first information acquisition means for acquiring ...