ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,679, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Continuous robot control system, control method of continuous robot, and storage medium" was invented by Kiyoshi Takagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous robot control system executes control which brings a continuous robot into a state where a most distal bending portion (leading bending portion) bends at a third bending angle between a bending angle b (second bending angle) and a bending angle e (first bending angle) with respect to a reference axis while a base is being located at a position between a position c (third position) and a position e (first...