US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 7 for "Device for teaching position and posture for robot to grasp workpiece, robot system, and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,428, issued on July 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Device for teaching position and posture for robot to grasp workpiece, robot system, and method" was invented by Toshiyuki Ando (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes: an image data acquisition unit that acquires, when a robot is grasping a workpiece by a hand, image data of the workpiece imaged by a visual sensor disposed at a known position on a control coordinate system; a workpiece position acquisition unit that acquires workpiece position data indicating a position and a posture of the workpiece on the basis of the image data; a ha...