US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Method for designing quaternion joint and quaternion joint" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,755, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for designing quaternion joint and quaternion joint" was invented by Kazutoshi Nishii (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for designing a quaternion joint where a first member rotatably coupled to a second member through links, a distance hc between both ends of the link at an initial position of an operating angle of the link, a distance wc between ends of the adjacent links, and a distance ho required to secure a degree of freedom of the end of the link are set based on a constraint condition in which a distance between a point ...