ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,454, issued on July 14, was assigned to DAIHEN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Interference determination device" was invented by Makoto Ikeguchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The interference determination device includes a distance measurement unit measuring a distance to an object contained in a workspace of a robot; a decimation unit decimating point cloud data obtained by the distance measurement unit, based on a range and a number of points of the point cloud data obtained by the distance measurement unit; an extraction unit extracting point cloud data, contained in a determination region encompassing a robot region that ...