US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 4 for "Driving apparatus, control method, robot, recording medium, and method of manufacturing products" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,739, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Driving apparatus, control method, robot, recording medium, and method of manufacturing products" was invented by Masaru Ogata (Tokyo), Junichi Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yohji Nakajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving apparatus is configured to displace a second link with respect to a first link. The driving apparatus includes a driving portion including an output portion configured to output a driving force that displaces the second link, a sensor configured to obtain information on force, a connection member configured to connect the output portion and the...