US Patent Issued to Canon on June 16 for "Robot, robot control method, article manufacturing method using robot, and control program and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,319, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Robot, robot control method, article manufacturing method using robot, and control program and storage medium" was invented by Haruhiko Horiguchi (Tokyo) and Akira Yajima (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot including one or more joints is configured to, when a particular joint among the joints has not been driven for a predetermined time, move the particular joint such that the robot refrains from coming into contact with a surrounding object or such that the robot comes into contact with the surrounding object while preventing a force applied to the robo...