ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,373, issued on May 19, was assigned to DAIHEN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transfer robot teaching system and transfer robot teaching method" was invented by Yoshihiro Suto (Osaka, Japan) and Jun Iura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teaching system is provided for a transfer robot including a vertical arm assembly, a rotation member, a horizontal arm assembly supported by the rotation member, a hand section supported by the horizontal arm assembly and provided with a detection sensor, and a control device configured to teach a position of the hand section using the sensing results of the target by the detection sensor. The ta...