US Patent Issued to Comau on Oct. 20 for "Method for inspecting and/or handling a component via a robotic arm, and corresponding system and computer-program product" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,722, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Comau S.p.A. (Grugliasco, Italy).

"Method for inspecting and/or handling a component via a robotic arm, and corresponding system and computer-program product" was invented by Nicola Longo (Grugliasco, Italy), Giovanni Di Stefano (Grugliasco, Italy) and Simone Panicucci (Grugliasco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and product for inspecting and/or handling a component via a robotic arm includes a computer for displaying a first 3-D model of a component in a virtual environment. Sensors are used to generate a second 3-D model of the component which is compared to the first 3-D model...