US Patent Issued to Canon on June 23 for "Manipulation apparatus, robot system, manipulation apparatus control method, and robot system control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,788, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Manipulation apparatus, robot system, manipulation apparatus control method, and robot system control method" was invented by Seigo Imamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manipulation apparatus configured to manipulate a robot includes a processor configured to, in a case where the robot interferes with an object and on a basis of a direction in which the robot receives a load from the object, determine a manipulation direction in which a manipulation of the robot is acceptable."

The patent was filed on Feb. 16, 2023, under Application No. 18/170,414.

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