US Patent Issued on June 30 for "Robotic control of object placement" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,971, issued on June 30.

"Robotic control of object placement" was invented by Ryo Masumura (Fukuoka, Japan), Hiroki Tachikake (Fukuoka, Japan), Keita Satsuma (Fukuoka, Japan), Keisuke Nakamura (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hisashi Ideguchi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control system comprising circuitry configured to acquire a designated area image showing a designated area, and execute image analysis on the designated area image to detect a current state of the designated area as a current area state. The circuitry is further configured to generate, based on the current area state, a state of the designated area whi...