US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for tool management in robot system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,841, issued on April 21, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for tool management in robot system" was invented by Kun Chang (Shanghai), Wenyao Shao (Shanghai) and Dianfei Xia (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer readable media for managing a tool in a robot system. In a method, a plurality of arm positions of a robot arm of the robot system are obtained when the tool is placed under a posture on a surface of a calibration object for calibrating the tool, where the posture represents rotation parameters of the robot arm. A center of the calibration...