ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,414, issued on July 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Workpiece retrieval count calculation device, hand system, and display device" was invented by Jun Wada (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This workpiece retrieval count calculation device comprises: a three-dimensional information acquisition unit for acquiring three-dimensional information pertaining to a subject space in which a plurality of workpieces are loaded; a workpiece shape information acquisition unit for acquiring shape information pertaining to the workpieces; and a workpiece retrieval count calculation unit for calculating a range of w...