ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,121, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Robot system, learning apparatus, information processing apparatus, learned model, control method, information processing method, method for manufacturing product, and recording medium" was invented by Akihiro Oda (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiko Shinagawa (Tokyo), Yuichiro Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Motohiro Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a robot, and an information processing portion. The information processing portion is configured to obtain a learned model by learning first force information about a force applied by a worker ...