ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,928, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Interference determination device and path generation device" was invented by Shota Ishikawa (Kariya, Japan) and Tomoaki Ozaki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interference determination device includes a registration unit that registers a start point and an end point of a motion of a robot, an interference determination unit that determines whether the robot interferes with an obstacle when the robot moves along a path from the start point to the end point, and an interference determination condition registration unit that registers an interference...